APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING A STRING OF SECRET BITS OVER A QUANTUM CHANNEL

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13182311

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For distributing a sequence of symbols, an emitter station transmits to a receiver station quantum systems through a quantum channel. Each of the quantum systems belongs to a set of at least two non-orthogonal quantum states and comprises a group of at least two weak coherent states of an electromagnetic field. Each weak coherent state is in a time bin of duration t. Centers of neighboring weak coherent states in a group are separated by a time T1, with T1 greater than t. Centers of neighboring weak coherent states in adjacent quantum systems are separated by a time T2, with T2 greater than t. In addition, any two weak coherent states separated by T1+T2 are phase coherent. The receiver station comprises an optical subsystem configured to check, for received quantum systems, phase coherence of two weak coherent states of time bins separated by T1+T2.

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UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE24 RUE DU GÉNÉRAL-DUFOUR GENEVA 4 CH-1211

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LIM, Charles Ci Wen Geneve, CH 1 104
WALENTA, Nino Geneve, CH 5 164
ZBINDEN, Hugo Geneve, CH 13 564

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