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Research in Optical Sciences

Device-Independent Quantum Information Processing

Nicolas Brunner

Published Jan 1, 2014• 4 citations
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Abstract

The goal of device-independent quantum information processing is to achieve information-theoretic tasks, e.g. quantum cryptography and randomness generation, and to guarantee their security without placing assumptions about the functioning of the devices used in the protocol.
DOI
10.1364/qim.2014.qw3a.2

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