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Quantum Communication

Quantum Physics 2018-07-23 v1

Abstract

Quantum Communication is the art of transferring an unknown quantum state from one location, Alice, to a distant one, Bob. This is a non-trivial task because of the quantum no-cloning theorem which prevents one from merely using only classical means.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1507.05157,
  title  = {Quantum Communication},
  author = {Nicolas Gisin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05157},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

To appear as a contribution to the "Roadmap of Optical Communications in Journal of Optics", Guest Editors Professors Erik Agrell and Magnus Karlsson (Chalmers University of Technology)

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