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 …

Micius quantum experiments in space

CY Lu, Y Cao, CZ Peng, JW Pan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Quantum theory has been successfully validated in numerous laboratory experiments. But
would such a theory, which effectively describes the behavior of microscopic physical …

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 …

Secure quantum key distribution with realistic devices

F Xu, X Ma, Q Zhang, HK Lo, JW Pan - Reviews of modern physics, 2020 - APS
In principle, quantum key distribution (QKD) offers information-theoretic security based on
the laws of physics. In practice, however, the imperfections of realistic devices might …

The evolution of quantum key distribution networks: On the road to the qinternet

Y Cao, Y Zhao, Q Wang, J Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantum key distribution (QKD) constitutes a symmetric secret key negotiation protocol
capable of maintaining information-theoretic security. Given the recent advances in QKD …

High-performance semiconductor quantum-dot single-photon sources

P Senellart, G Solomon, A White - Nature nanotechnology, 2017 - nature.com
Single photons are a fundamental element of most quantum optical technologies. The ideal
single-photon source is an on-demand, deterministic, single-photon source delivering light …

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 …

Satellite-to-ground quantum key distribution

SK Liao, WQ Cai, WY Liu, L Zhang, Y Li, JG Ren, J Yin… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Quantum key distribution (QKD) uses individual light quanta in quantum superposition states
to guarantee unconditional communication security between distant parties. However, the …

A survey of important issues in quantum computing and communications

Z Yang, M Zolanvari, R Jain - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven by the rapid progress in quantum hardware, recent years have witnessed a furious
race for quantum technologies in both academia and industry. Universal quantum …

Quantum computing: A taxonomy, systematic review and future directions

SS Gill, A Kumar, H Singh, M Singh… - Software: Practice …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum computing (QC) is an emerging paradigm with the potential to offer significant
computational advantage over conventional classical computing by exploiting quantum …