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PhotoniX, Volume. 3, Issue 1, 2(2022)

40-user fully connected entanglement-based quantum key distribution network without trusted node

Xu Liu1、†, Jingyuan Liu1、†, Rong Xue1, Heqing Wang2, Hao Li2, Xue Feng1,3, Fang Liu1,3, Kaiyu Cui1,3, Zhen Wang2, Lixing You2, Yidong Huang1,3,4, and Wei Zhang1,3,4、*
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  • 1Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Beijing Innovation Center for Future Chips, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
  • 3Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information, Beijing, 100084, China
  • 4Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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    Xu Liu, Jingyuan Liu, Rong Xue, Heqing Wang, Hao Li, Xue Feng, Fang Liu, Kaiyu Cui, Zhen Wang, Lixing You, Yidong Huang, Wei Zhang. 40-user fully connected entanglement-based quantum key distribution network without trusted node[J]. PhotoniX, 2022, 3(1): 2

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    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Oct. 16, 2021

    Accepted: Jan. 8, 2022

    Published Online: Jul. 10, 2023

    The Author Email: Wei Zhang (zwei@tsinghua.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1186/s43074-022-00048-2

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