Fundamental limits of repeaterless quantum communications
- Submitting institution
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University of York
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 54879790
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/ncomms15043
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- 15043
- First page
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- Volume
- 8
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 355
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The paper was part of the output from the EPSRC-funded UK quantum communications hub and the EPSRC grant “qDATA”. It achieved a ground-breaking result in discovering the ultimate limits for quantum communications, i.e., the optimal rates at which quantum information, entanglement, and secret keys can be distributed over a communication channel. The work has had a significant impact on many researchers and groups worldwide. It has become the standard benchmark to evaluate the performance of point-to-point protocols of quantum key distribution, and quantum repeaters and networks (in more than 100 papers).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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