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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

An Exactly Solvable Model of Quantum Communications

Graeme Smith, John A. Smolin

Published Mar 4, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

An exactly solvable information-theoretical model of communications with a fully quantum electromagnetic field yields explicit expressions for all point-to-point capacities—the maximum possible rates of data transmission—of noisy quantum channels, with implications for quantum key distribution and fibre-optic communications.

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