Quantum eavesdropping without interception: An attack exploiting the dead time of single-photon detectors

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Weier, Henning ^a,b   Krauss, Harald ^a   Rau, Markus ^a   Fürst, Martin ^a,b   Nauerth, Sebastian ^a,b   Weinfurter, Harald ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b QUTOOLS GMBH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAD TIME; DEAD TIME EFFECTS; QUANTUM CHANNEL; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS;

BIT ERROR RATE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960775427     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/7/073024     Document Type: Article

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