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Quantum Information Processing

Photon-monitoring attack on continuous-variable quantum key distribution with source in middle

Yijun Wang, Peng Huang, Ying Guo, Dazu Huang

Published Sep 13, 2014• 4 citations
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10.1007/s11128-014-0821-z

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