Experimental free-space quantum secure direct communication and its security analysis

Dong Pan; Zaisheng Lin; Jiawei Wu; Haoran Zhang; Zhen Sun; Dong Ruan; Liuguo Yin; Gui Lu Long

doi:10.1364/PRJ.388790

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 9, 1522(2020)

Experimental free-space quantum secure direct communication and its security analysis

Dong Pan^1,2、†, Zaisheng Lin^{2,3,4,5、†}, Jiawei Wu^1,2, Haoran Zhang^1,2, Zhen Sun^2,3, Dong Ruan^1,2, Liuguo Yin^{2,3,4,5,6、*}, and Gui Lu Long^{1,2,3,4,5,7、*}

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

²Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information, Beijing 100084, China

³School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

⁴Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing 100084, China

⁵Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, China

⁶e-mail: yinlg@tsinghua.edu.cn

⁷e-mail: gllong@tsinghua.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Quantum Optics

Received: Jan. 22, 2020

Accepted: Jun. 20, 2020

Published Online: Sep. 1, 2020

The Author Email: Liuguo Yin (yinlg@tsinghua.edu.cn), Gui Lu Long (gllong@tsinghua.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.388790

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