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Quantum Communications

Mário F. S. Ferreira, Armando N. Pinto, Hannes Hübel

Published Jan 26, 2020• 1 citation
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Scope: Quantum communications is a rapidly evolving research area with imminent practical applications. Quantum key distribution (QKD) is one of the most important and successful applications in th...
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10.1080/01468030.2020.1712536

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