Reexamination of the decoy-state quantum key distribution with an unstable source

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Hu, Jia Zhong ^a   Wang, Xiang Bin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOY-STATE PROTOCOL; INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; LOWER BOUNDS; PHOTON COUNT; PUMP LIGHT; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE INTENSITY;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM THEORY;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 77955108006     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.012331     Document Type: Article

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