Advances in quantum cryptography

S Pirandola, UL Andersen, L Banchi… - Advances in optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Quantum cryptography is arguably the fastest growing area in quantum information science.
Novel theoretical protocols are designed on a regular basis, security proofs are constantly …

Quantum entanglement

R Horodecki, P Horodecki, M Horodecki… - Reviews of modern …, 2009 - APS
All our former experience with application of quantum theory seems to say that what is
predicted by quantum formalism must occur in the laboratory. But the essence of quantum …

An integrated space-to-ground quantum communication network over 4,600 kilometres

YA Chen, Q Zhang, TY Chen, WQ Cai, SK Liao… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Quantum key distribution (QKD), has the potential to enable secure communication and
information transfer. In the laboratory, the feasibility of point-to-point QKD is evident from the …

Overcoming the rate–distance limit of quantum key distribution without quantum repeaters

M Lucamarini, ZL Yuan, JF Dynes, AJ Shields - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Quantum key distribution (QKD), allows two distant parties to share encryption keys with
security based on physical laws. Experimentally, QKD has been implemented via optical …

Experimental demonstration of memory-enhanced quantum communication

MK Bhaskar, R Riedinger, B Machielse, DS Levonian… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The ability to communicate quantum information over long distances is of central importance
in quantum science and engineering. Although some applications of quantum …

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution

HK Lo, M Curty, B Qi - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
How to remove detector side channel attacks has been a notoriously hard problem in
quantum cryptography. Here, we propose a simple solution to this problem—measurement …

The security of practical quantum key distribution

V Scarani, H Bechmann-Pasquinucci, NJ Cerf… - Reviews of modern …, 2009 - APS
Quantum key distribution (QKD) is the first quantum information task to reach the level of
mature technology, already fit for commercialization. It aims at the creation of a secret key …

Decoy state quantum key distribution

HK Lo, X Ma, K Chen - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
There has been much interest in quantum key distribution. Experimentally, quantum key
distribution over 150 km of commercial Telecom fibers has been successfully performed …

A photonic integrated quantum secure communication system

TK Paraiso, T Roger, DG Marangon, I De Marco… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Photonic integrated circuits hold great promise in enabling the practical wide-scale
deployment of quantum communications; however, despite impressive experiments of …

Security of quantum key distribution

R Renner - International Journal of Quantum Information, 2008 - World Scientific
Quantum Information Theory is an area of physics which studies both fundamental and
applied issues in quantum mechanics from an information-theoretical viewpoint. The …