Decoy-state quantum key distribution with both source errors and statistical fluctuations

Xiang‐Bin Wang, Lin Yang, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Jian-Wei Pan

New Journal of Physics · 2009 · 102 citations · 39 references

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We show how to calculate the fraction of single photon counts of the 3-intensity decoy-state quantum cryptography faithfully with both statistical fluctuations and source errors. Our results only rely on the bound values of a few parameters of the states of pulses.

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