Single Photons, Entanglement Swapping and Heralded Photon Amplification for Device Independent Quantum Key Distribution
Rob Thew, Clara I. Osorio, Natalia Bruno, Enrico Pomarico, Thiago Rodrigues da Silva Barbosa, Bruno Sanguinetti, Nicolas Sangouard, Hugo Zbinden, Nicolas Gisin · Research in Optical Sciences · 2012
We discuss several key challenges for quantum communication ranging from engineering photon sources through faithful entanglement swapping to heralded photon, or qubit, amplification and their implications for experimental device independent QKD.