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Entanglement-based secure quantum cryptography over 1,120 kilometres

Juan Yin, Yu-Huai Li, Sheng‐Kai Liao, Meng Yang, Yuan Wen Cao, Liang Zhang, Ji-Gang Ren, Wenqi Cai, Wei-Yue Liu, Shuang-Lin Li, Rong Shu, Yongmei Huang, Lei Deng, Li Li, Qiang Zhang, Nai-Le Liu, Yu-Ao Chen, Chao‐Yang Lu, Xiang‐Bin Wang, Feihu Xu, Jianyu Wang, Cheng-Zhi Peng, ARTUR K. EKERT, Jian-Wei Pan

Published Jun 15, 2020• 756 citations
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10.1038/s41586-020-2401-y

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