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Single polarized-photon emitters based on III-nitride pyramidal quantum dots for quantum cryptography

The modern society is reliant on digital communication, at present experiencing an immense expansion, but the communication should also be secure.

Per Olof Holtz Per Olof Holtz

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Simple and Tight Device-Independent Security Proofs

Arnon-Friedman, Rotem, Renato Renner and Thomas Vidick. 2019. Simple and Tight Device-Independent Security Proofs. SIAM Journal on Computing...

Renato Renner Renato Renner Thomas Vidick Thomas Vidick

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Cryptography in the Quantum Age

Even though we have some basic understanding of the power of quantum computation, and its impact on cryptography and cryptanalysis, there are many open problems, some of them purely technical and some more fundamental.

Miklos Santha Miklos Santha Antoine Joux Antoine Joux Marco Tomamichel Marco Tomamichel Artur Ekert Artur Ekert

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The nature of randomness and fundamental physical limits of secrecy

People have always been fascinated by randomness and intrigued by the fundamental question – is any outcome that appears random to us only so by virtue of our ignorance, or do there exist experiments whose outcome is inherently unpredictable to any observers, no matter how powerful or omniscient they might be?

Renato Renner Renato Renner Miklos Santha Miklos Santha Thomas Vidick Thomas Vidick Artur Ekert Artur Ekert
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