Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing

C Couteau, S Barz, T Durt, T Gerrits, J Huwer… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In the context of quantum technologies, the generation and manipulation of single photons
has become a key element for applications such as quantum communication and quantum …

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 …

High-rate quantum key distribution exceeding 110 Mb s–1

W Li, L Zhang, H Tan, Y Lu, SK Liao, J Huang, H Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum key distribution (QKD) can provide fundamentally proven secure communication.
Towards application, the secret key rate (SKR) is a key figure of merit for any QKD system …

Experimental quantum communication overcomes the rate-loss limit without global phase tracking

L Zhou, J Lin, YM Xie, YS Lu, Y Jing, HL Yin, Z Yuan - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Secure key rate (SKR) of point-point quantum key distribution (QKD) is fundamentally
bounded by the rate-loss limit. Recent breakthrough of twin-field (TF) QKD can overcome …

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 …

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 …

Quantum key distribution: a networking perspective

M Mehic, M Niemiec, S Rass, J Ma, M Peev… - ACM Computing …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The convergence of quantum cryptography with applications used in everyday life is a topic
drawing attention from the industrial and academic worlds. The development of quantum …

Fast single-photon detectors and real-time key distillation enable high secret-key-rate quantum key distribution systems

F Grünenfelder, A Boaron, GV Resta, M Perrenoud… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum key distribution has emerged as the most viable scheme to guarantee information
security in the presence of large-scale quantum computers and, thanks to the continuous …

Quantum cryptography in 5G networks: a comprehensive overview

M Mehic, L Michalek, E Dervisevic… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Every attempt to access to the Internet through a Web browser, email sent, VPN connection,
VoIP call, instant message or other use of telecommunications systems involves …

State-of-the-art survey of quantum cryptography

A Kumar, S Garhwal - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2021 - Springer
In today Internet era, confidential information transmitted over an insecure channel. With the
significant development in the area of quantum computing, there is a need for unconditional …