Finite-key analysis for quantum key distribution with decoy states

Quantum Information and Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 0374-0389

  Song, Ting Ting ^a,b   Zhang, Jie ^a   Qin, Su Juan ^a   Gao, Fei ^a   Wen, Qiao Yan ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Decoy states; Finite key; Quantum key distribution

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

DECOY STATE; ERROR RATE; FINITE KEY; PHOTON PULSE; QUANTUM STATE; REASONABLE VALUE;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84863011429     PISSN: 15337146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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