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IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

Architectures for Quantum Networks

Chip Elliott

Published Sep 22, 2006• 0 citations
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Abstract

The paper discusses on current status of quantum key distribution (QKD) networking and suggests some potential network architectures
DOI
10.1109/leosst.2006.1694004

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