Quantum cryptography

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

1935 • 15,430 citations

New directions in cryptography

1976 • 14,219 citations

Teleporting an unknown quantum state via dual classical and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen channels

1993 • 12,629 citations

A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems

1978 • 11,894 citations

Quantum cryptography based on Bell’s theorem

1991 • 9,670 citations

Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems*

1949 • 8,845 citations

Quantal phase factors accompanying adiabatic changes

1984 • 8,381 citations

Proposed Experiment to Test Local Hidden-Variable Theories

1969 • 6,776 citations

A single quantum cannot be cloned

1982 • 4,841 citations

Separability Criterion for Density Matrices

1996 • 4,796 citations

Quantum theory, the Church–Turing principle and the universal quantum computer

1985 • 4,329 citations

Experimental Test of Bell's Inequalities Using Time- Varying Analyzers

1982 • 3,612 citations

Broadcast channels with confidential messages

1978 • 3,262 citations

Quantum Repeaters: The Role of Imperfect Local Operations in Quantum Communication

1998 • 3,019 citations

Quantum secret sharing

1999 • 3,012 citations

Quantum cryptography using any two nonorthogonal states

1992 • 2,852 citations

On the Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics

1966 • 2,714 citations

Simple Proof of Security of the BB84 Quantum Key Distribution Protocol

2000 • 2,703 citations

A Quantum Dot Single-Photon Turnstile Device

2000 • 2,301 citations

Quantum cryptography without Bell’s theorem

1992 • 2,222 citations

Secret key agreement by public discussion from common information

1993 • 1,988 citations

‘‘Event-ready-detectors’’ Bell experiment via entanglement swapping

1993 • 1,823 citations

Experimental Test of Local Hidden-Variable Theories

1972 • 1,818 citations

Unconditional Security of Quantum Key Distribution over Arbitrarily Long Distances

1999 • 1,744 citations

Photon Antibunching in Resonance Fluorescence

1977 • 1,622 citations

Violation of Bell's Inequality under Strict Einstein Locality Conditions

1998 • 1,575 citations

Bell's theorem. Experimental tests and implications

1978 • 1,484 citations

Experimental quantum cryptography

1992 • 1,449 citations

Stable Solid-State Source of Single Photons

2000 • 1,369 citations

Communication by EPR devices

1982 • 1,368 citations

Conjugate coding

1983 • 1,368 citations

Generalized privacy amplification

1995 • 1,353 citations

Quantum Privacy Amplification and the Security of Quantum Cryptography over Noisy Channels

1996 • 1,132 citations

Bell inequality for position and time

1989 • 1,099 citations

Limitations on Practical Quantum Cryptography

2000 • 1,096 citations

Enhanced Spontaneous Emission by Quantum Boxes in a Monolithic Optical Microcavity

1998 • 1,078 citations

Quantum copying: Beyond the no-cloning theorem

1996 • 1,040 citations

Avalanche photodiodes and quenching circuits for single-photon detection

1996 • 1,023 citations

Ultrabright source of polarization-entangled photons

1999 • 1,016 citations

Violation of Bell Inequalities by Photons More Than 10 km Apart

1998 • 910 citations

Quantum Cryptography with Entangled Photons

2000 • 893 citations

Triggered Single Photons from a Quantum Dot

2001 • 888 citations

New Type of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Experiment Using Pairs of Light Quanta Produced by Optical Parametric Down Conversion

1988 • 873 citations

Privacy Amplification by Public Discussion

1988 • 855 citations

Optimal Eavesdropping in Quantum Cryptography with Six States

1998 • 793 citations

Observation of Berry's Topological Phase by Use of an Optical Fiber

1986 • 761 citations

Unconditionally Secure Quantum Bit Commitment is Impossible

1997 • 731 citations

Optimal Quantum Cloning Machines

1997 • 693 citations

Security against individual attacks for realistic quantum key distribution

2000 • 688 citations

Quantum repeaters based on entanglement purification

1999 • 683 citations

How to differentiate between non-orthogonal states

1987 • 649 citations

How to differentiate between non-orthogonal states

1988 • 648 citations

Pulsed Energy-Time Entangled Twin-Photon Source for Quantum Communication

1999 • 621 citations

Experimental realization of a localized one-photon state

1986 • 599 citations

Quantum cryptography with coherent states

1995 • 570 citations

Photon antibunching in the fluorescence of individual color centers in diamond

2000 • 565 citations

Quantum Cryptography Using Entangled Photons in Energy-Time Bell States

2000 • 554 citations

Quantum Cryptography with 3-State Systems

2000 • 514 citations

A single-photon turnstile device

1999 • 467 citations

Experiment and the foundations of quantum physics

1999 • 456 citations

Optimal eavesdropping in quantum cryptography. I. Information bound and optimal strategy

1997 • 455 citations

Theory of parametric frequency down conversion of light

1985 • 434 citations

Quantum cryptography using larger alphabets

2000 • 425 citations

Seeing a single photon without destroying it

1999 • 419 citations

Strong Purcell effect for InAs quantum boxes in three-dimensional solid-state microcavities

1999 • 403 citations

Experimental demonstration of quantum secret sharing

2001 • 398 citations

Experimental Test of Local Hidden-Variable Theories

1976 • 396 citations

Triggered Source of Single Photons based on Controlled Single Molecule Fluorescence

1999 • 391 citations

Entangled State Quantum Cryptography: Eavesdropping on the Ekert Protocol

2000 • 373 citations

Highly efficient photon-pair source using periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide

2001 • 347 citations

Incoherent and coherent eavesdropping in the six-state protocol of quantum cryptography

1999 • 345 citations

Quantum-state disturbance versus information gain: Uncertainty relations for quantum information

1996 • 335 citations

Practical quantum cryptography based on two-photon interferometry

1992 • 331 citations

Quantum Cryptography Based on Orthogonal States

1995 • 300 citations

Practical Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution over 1 km

1998 • 292 citations

Quantum Cryptography

1992 • 283 citations

Optimal Universal Quantum Cloning and State Estimation

1998 • 273 citations

Single photon interference in 10 km long optical fibre interferometer

1993 • 272 citations

Unconditionally secure key agreement and the intrinsic conditional information

1999 • 270 citations

Nonlocal cancellation of dispersion

1992 • 263 citations

Quantum key distribution using multilevel encoding

2001 • 261 citations

Dispersion cancellation in a measurement of the single-photon propagation velocity in glass

1992 • 255 citations

Quantum cryptography on multiuser optical fibre networks

1997 • 241 citations

A universal compensator for polarization changes induced by birefringence on a retracing beam

1989 • 241 citations

Nonclassical Photon Statistics in Single-Molecule Fluorescence at Room Temperature

2000 • 241 citations

Quantum key distribution over distances as long as 30 km

1995 • 237 citations

Violation of Bell's Inequality over 4 km of Optical Fiber

1994 • 227 citations

Quantum Random-number Generation and Key Sharing

1994 • 220 citations

Experimental Demonstration of Quantum Cryptography Using Polarized Photons in Optical Fibre over More than 1 km

1993 • 205 citations

Unambiguous quantum measurement of nonorthogonal states

1996 • 190 citations

Dispersion cancellation and high-resolution time measurements in a fourth-order optical interferometer

1992 • 185 citations

Characterization of silicon avalanche photodiodes for photon correlation measurements 1: Passive quenching

1986 • 183 citations

Daylight Quantum Key Distribution over 1.6 km

2000 • 182 citations

Performance of InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiodes as gated-mode photon counters

1998 • 182 citations

Long-distance entanglement-based quantum key distribution

2000 • 175 citations

Turnstile device for heralded single photons: Coulomb blockade of electron and hole tunneling in quantum confinedp-i-nheterojunctions

1994 • 173 citations

Optimal Quantum Cloning via Stimulated Emission

2000 • 160 citations

Single-photon detection beyond 1 μm: performance of commercially available InGaAs/InP detectors

1996 • 157 citations

Simultaneous quantum cryptographic key distribution and conventional data transmission over installed fibre using wavelength-division multiplexing

1997 • 157 citations

Quantum cloning without signaling

1998 • 155 citations

Quantum cryptography over 23 km in installed under-lake telecom fibre

1996 • 154 citations

Unambiguous state discrimination in quantum cryptography with weak coherent states

2000 • 144 citations

An autocompensating fiber-optic quantum cryptography system based on polarization splitting of light

2000 • 143 citations

Experimental demonstration of optimal unambiguous state discrimination

2001 • 142 citations

Towards the clarity limit in optical fibre

2000 • 136 citations

Photon counting for quantum key distribution with peltier cooled InGaAs/InP APDs

2001 • 133 citations

Intensity fluctuation spectroscopy of small numbers of dye molecules in a microcavity

1998 • 133 citations

Long-distance Bell-type tests using energy-time entangled photons

1999 • 132 citations

Characterization of silicon avalanche photodiodes for photon correlation measurements 2: Active quenching

1987 • 125 citations

Performance and design of InGaAs/InP photodiodes for single-photon counting at 155 µm

2000 • 122 citations

Security of Quantum Cryptography against Collective Attacks

1997 • 122 citations

Security against eavesdropping in quantum cryptography

1996 • 119 citations

The Golden Age of Optical Fiber Amplifiers

1994 • 118 citations

Two-qubit copying machine for economical quantum eavesdropping

1999 • 118 citations

Quantum cryptography in free space

1996 • 118 citations

Single-Photon Interference in Sidebands of Phase-Modulated Light for Quantum Cryptography

1999 • 118 citations

Interferometry with Faraday mirrors for quantum cryptography

1997 • 118 citations

Secure key distribution system based on quantum cryptography

1994 • 111 citations

Quest for Ghz States

1998 • 111 citations

Enhanced single photon fringe visibility in a 10 km-long prototype quantum cryptography channel

1993 • 109 citations

High-efficiency single-photon detectors

1993 • 107 citations

The breakdown flash of silicon avalanche photodiodes-back door for eavesdropper attacks?

2001 • 105 citations

Coherent eavesdropping strategies for the four state quantum cryptography protocol

1997 • 98 citations

Experiments on long wavelength (1550 nm) "plug and play" quantum cryptography systems

1999 • 97 citations

Fiber spin-profile designs for producing fibers with low polarization mode dispersion

1998 • 95 citations

Quantum amplifiers, quantum duplicators and quantum cryptography

1996 • 95 citations

Multi-user Quantum Cryptography on Optical Networks

1995 • 94 citations

Single-photon counting for the 1300–1600-nm range by use of Peltier-cooled and passively quenched InGaAs avalanche photodiodes

2000 • 88 citations

Information Exclusion Principle for Complementary Observables

1995 • 84 citations

Photons cannot always be replicated

1982 • 83 citations

Single-photon detection beyond 1 μm: performance of commercially available germanium photodiodes

1994 • 81 citations

Underwater quantum coding

1995 • 79 citations

Bounds on Information and the Security of Quantum Cryptography

1997 • 76 citations

Experimental investigation of the performance limits for first telecommunications-window quantum cryptography systems

1998 • 75 citations

Design of quantum cryptography systems for passive optical networks

1994 • 75 citations

Operational system for quantum cryptography

1995 • 64 citations

Quantum Cryptography on Noisy Channels: Quantum versus Classical Key-Agreement Protocols

1999 • 62 citations

Photon counting with passively quenched germanium avalanche

1994 • 62 citations

Quantum Cryptography on Optical Fiber Networks

1998 • 61 citations

Schroedinger cat states and optimum universal quantum cloning by entangled parametric amplification

2000 • 60 citations

Room-temperature 1.3-μm optical time domain reflectometer using a photon counting InGaAs/InP avalanche detector

1985 • 54 citations

Quantum Cryptography with Polarized Photons in Optical Fibres

1994 • 51 citations

Statistical prediction and experimental verification of concatenations of fiber optic components with polarization dependent loss

1998 • 48 citations

Free-space quantum key distribution in daylight

2000 • 48 citations

Actively quenched single-photon avalanche diode for high repetition rate time-gated photon counting

1996 • 46 citations

Geometric phases in two-photon interference experiments

1995 • 42 citations

Photon counting with photodiodes

1983 • 41 citations

Time Reversal for the Polarization State in Optical Systems

1992 • 40 citations

A single-photon counter for long-haul telecom

1999 • 39 citations

Nonlocal cancellation of dispersive broadening in Mach-Zehnder interferometers

1995 • 38 citations

Long-distance frequency-division interferometer for communication and quantum cryptography

1995 • 35 citations

Infrared Photon Counting by Ge Avalanche Diodes

1971 • 33 citations

Experimental long wavelength quantum cryptography: From single-photon transmission to key extraction protocols

2000 • 32 citations

Definition of polarization mode dispersion and first results of the COST 241 round-robin measurements

1995 • 29 citations

Optimal photon cloning

2000 • 29 citations

Quantum Cryptography with Interferometric Quantum Entanglement

1994 • 26 citations

Spectral coding for secure optical communications using refractive index dispersion

1997 • 24 citations

Nanosecond single-photon timing with InGaAs/InP photodiodes

1994 • 24 citations

Measurement of nonlinear polarization rotation in a highly birefringent optical fibre using a Faraday mirror

2000 • 24 citations

Determination of nonlinear coefficient n2/Aeff using self-aligned interferometer and Faraday mirror

2000 • 22 citations

Interferometer using a 3 × 3 coupler and Faraday mirrors

1995 • 21 citations

Characterization of silicon avalanche photodiodes for photon correlation measurements 3: Sub-Geiger operation

1989 • 18 citations

Complex mode coupling within air–silica structured optical fibres and applications

2000 • 14 citations

High-accuracy picosecond characterization of gain-switched laser diodes

1989 • 12 citations

The Geometric Phase

1993 • 10 citations

SHORT DISTANCE APPLICATIONS OF QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY

1996 • 9 citations

Quantum cryptography using photon “frequency” states (example of a possible realization)

1998 • 9 citations

Coded secrets cracked open

2000 • 2 citations