Real-world two-photon interference and proof-of-principle quantum key distribution immune to detector attacks

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 13, 2013, Pages

  Rubenok, A ^a   Slater, J A ^a   Chan, P ^a   Lucio Martinez, I ^a   Tittel, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUTURE APPLICATIONS; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOLS; QUANTUM NETWORK; QUANTUM REPEATERS; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84884679606     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.130501     Document Type: Article

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