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Quantum key distribution without the transfer of a quantum state as a whole through a communication channel

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An example of quantum key distribution on an entangled single photon and in vacuum states is given. In this scheme, the single-photon quantum state is never transferred as a whole through a communication channel.

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  1. Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432, Russia

    S. N. Molotkov

  2. Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 121552, Russia

    S. N. Molotkov

  3. Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    S. N. Molotkov

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Original Russian Text © S.N. Molotkov, 2011, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2011, Vol. 93, No. 6, pp. 389–393.

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Molotkov, S.N. Quantum key distribution without the transfer of a quantum state as a whole through a communication channel. Jetp Lett. 93, 354–357 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364011060099

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