Security of practical phase-coding quantum key distribution

Quantum Information and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 771-779

  Li, Hong Wei ^a,b   Yin, Zhen Qiang ^a   Han, Zheng Fu ^a   Bao, Wan Su ^b   Guo, Guang Can ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INFORMATION ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Phase coding; Quantum key distribution; Security; Unbalanced mach zehnder

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS);

BB84 PROTOCOL; ENCODERS AND DECODERS; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; MACH-ZEHNDER; PHASE CODING; SECURITY; SECURITY ANALYSIS; SECURITY PROOFS; UNBALANCED MACH-ZEHNDE; UNBALANCED MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 78649478766     PISSN: 15337146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26421/qic10.9-10-4     Document Type: Article

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