• DocumentCode
    2882337
  • Title

    Single photon quantum key distribution with continuous variables

  • Author

    Zhang, Lijian ; Walmsley, Ian A. ; Silberhorn, Christine

  • Author_Institution
    Clarendon Lab., Univ. of Oxford, Oxford
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We propose a quantum key distribution scheme using the spatial properties of the entangled photon pairs generated from parametric downconversion. The security of this scheme is guaranteed by the distributed entanglement.
  • Keywords
    quantum cryptography; quantum entanglement; quantum optics; distributed entanglement; entangled photon pairs; parametric downconversion; single photon quantum key distribution; Cryptography; Detectors; Information rates; Laboratories; Mutual information; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Photonic crystals; Protocols; Quantum entanglement; (270.0270) Quantum Optics; (999.9999) Quantum information processing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628904
  • Filename
    4628904