Free-space quantum key distribution by rotation-invariant twisted photons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Vallone, Giuseppe ^a   D'Ambrosio, Vincenzo ^b   Sponselli, Anna ^a   Slussarenko, Sergei ^c   Marrucci, Lorenzo ^c   Sciarrino, Fabio ^b   Villoresi, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

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EID: 84906052583     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.060503     Document Type: Article

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