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Chapman & Hall/CRC eBooks

Quantum Cryptography

Dag Roar Hjelme, Lars Lydersen, Vadim Makarov

Published Nov 9, 2011• 0 citations
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Abstract

When information is transmitted in microscopic systems, such as single photons (single light particles) or atoms, its information carriers obey quantum rather than classical physics. This offers many new possibilities for information processing, since it is possible to invent novel information processes prevented by classical physics.
DOI
10.1201/b11467-10

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