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Preliminaries

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This chapter discusses basics necessary for the next chapters. All fields are skimped, because some areas would need more explanation, like quantum information theory, but this will be out of scope for this chapter.

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  1. Safety & Security Department, Quantum Technologies, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Lakeside B01A, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    M. Pivk

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  1. Austrian Research Centers GmbH (ARC), Donau-City-Str. 1, Wien, 1220, Austria

    Christian Kollmitzer

  2. Pöckau 171, Arnoldstein, 9601, Austria

    Mario Pivk

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Pivk, M. (2010). Preliminaries. In: Kollmitzer, C., Pivk, M. (eds) Applied Quantum Cryptography. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 797. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04831-9_2

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