Boosting up quantum key distribution by learning statistics of practical single-photon sources

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Adachi, Yoritoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Takashi ^a   Koashi, Masato ^a   Imoto, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM SPLITTERS; DECOY STATE; KEY GENERATION RATE; LEARNING STATISTICS; MULTI-PHOTON EMISSION; PHOTON-NUMBER DISTRIBUTION; POISSONIAN; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; SECOND ORDERS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 72049131084     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/11/113033     Document Type: Article

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