Passive Faraday-mirror attack in a practical two-way quantum-key- distribution system

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Sun, Shi Hai ^a   Jiang, Mu Sheng ^a   Liang, Lin Mei ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; FARADAY MIRRORS; PLUG-AND-PLAY; POSITIVE-OPERATOR-VALUED MEASURES; QUANTUM BIT ERROR RATE; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; SECRET KEY; SYSTEM-BASED; THREE-DIMENSION;

BIT ERROR RATE; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 79961093424     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.062331     Document Type: Article

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