Quantum repeaters and quantum key distribution: Analysis of secret-key rates

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Abruzzo, Silvestre ^a   Bratzik, Sylvia ^a   Bernardes, Nadja K ^b,c   Kampermann, Hermann ^a   Van Loock, Peter ^b,c,d   Bruß, Dagmar ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ENSEMBLE; ATOMIC SPIN; COHERENT STATE; ENTANGLED STATE; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; LINEAR OPTICS; OPTIMAL NUMBER; QUANTUM REPEATERS;

DISTILLATION; QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84877972456     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.052315     Document Type: Article

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