Improving the maximum transmission distance of continuous-variable quantum key distribution using a noiseless amplifier

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Blandino, Rémi ^a   Leverrier, Anthony ^b   Barbieri, Marco ^a,d   Etesse, Jean ^a   Grangier, Philippe ^a   Tualle Brouri, Rosa ^a,c  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT STATE; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; GAUSSIANS; LINEAR AMPLIFIERS; LOSSY CHANNEL; NOISELESS AMPLIFIER; SECRET KEY; TRANSMISSION DISTANCES;

PHYSICS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84864242810     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.012327     Document Type: Article

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