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The European Physical Journal D

Fiber and free-space practical decoy state QKD for both BB84 and SARG04 protocols

Sellami Ali, Mohamed Ridza Wahiddin

Published Aug 26, 2010• 15 citations
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10.1140/epjd/e2010-00214-5

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