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Defeating Passive Eavesdropping with Quantum Illumination

Quantum Physics 2015-05-13 v2

Abstract

Quantum illumination permits Alice and Bob to communicate at 50 Mbit/s over 50 km of low-loss fiber with error probability less than 10^(-6) while the optimum passive eavesdropper's error probability must exceed 0.28.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0904.2490,
  title  = {Defeating Passive Eavesdropping with Quantum Illumination},
  author = {Jeffrey H. Shapiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2490},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

2 pages, 1 figure; new version corrects a significant typographical error

R2 v1 2026-06-21T12:52:05.953Z