S. N. Molotkov, “On the ultimate capabilities of the quantum key distribution with the control over the statistics of a non-single-photon source”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2008, Volume 87, Issue 10,Pages <nobr>674

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On the ultimate capabilities of the quantum key distribution with the control over the statistics of a non-single-photon source

S. N. Molotkov^abc

^a Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432, Russia
^b Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 121552, Russia
^c Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia

Abstract: The upper bound of the length of a quantum communication channel has been determined for the key distribution in the decoy state method.

PACS: 03.65.Hk, 03.67.Dd

Received: 11.03.2008
Revised: 08.04.2008