Continuous variable quantum key distribution with modulated entangled states

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Madsen, Lars S ^a   Usenko, Vladyslav C ^b,c   Lassen, Mikael ^a   Filip, Radim ^b   Andersen, Ulrik L ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c BOGOLYUBOV INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84866983361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2097     Document Type: Article

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