Recent Advances in Quantum Communication with Realistic Devices
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Electronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2023) | Viewed by 560
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Quantum communication has made significant advances in recent years, due to the increasing demand for information security and the development of optoelectronic devices. Based on quantum resources such as quantum coherence and entanglement, quantum communication has the potential to achieve secure, high-speed information processing in fundamentally different ways from classical communication methods. In the practical implementations of quantum communication protocols, the security and performance will suffer from imperfections of the devices. Such imperfections can be exploited as side channels, which will lead to information leakage. On the other hand, the high requirements of experimental techniques in some protocols also become an obstacle to a wide application of quantum communication. This Special Issue is aimed at closing or narrowing the gap between the theory and implementations of quantum communication protocols by collecting the latest advances in this rapidly developing field.
The scope of this Special Issue is to present and highlight the advances of the latest quantum communication protocols with realistic devices and their practical implementations. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Quantum key distribution.
- Quantum random-number generation.
- Quantum repeaters.
- Quantum networks.
- Post-processing of quantum cryptography.
- Hardware implementation of wired/wireless quantum communication devices.
- Experimental free-space quantum communications.
- Benchmark of quantum communication devices.
Dr. Hongyi Zhou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- quantum key distribution
- quantum random-number generation
- quantum network
- quantum optics
- post-processing
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