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The SECOQC quantum key distribution network in Vienna

M. Peev ¹ C. Pacher ¹ Romain Alleaume ^{2, 3} C. Barreiro ⁴ J. Bouda ⁵ W. Boxleitner ¹ Thierry Debuisschert ⁶ Eleni Diamanti ^{2, 3, 7} M. Dianati ⁸ J.F. Dynes ⁹ S. Fasel ⁴ Simon Fossier ^{6, 7} M. Fürst ¹⁰ J.D. Gautier ⁴ O. Gay ¹¹ Nicolas Gisin ⁴ Philippe Grangier ⁷ A. Happe ¹ y. Hasani ¹ M. Hentschel ¹² H. Hübel ¹³ G. Humer ¹ T. Länger ¹ M. Legré ¹¹ R. Lieger ¹ Jérôme Lodewyck ^{6, 7, 14} T. Lorünser ¹ Norbert Lutkenhaus ^{15, 16} A. Marhold ¹⁷ T. Matyus ¹ O. Maurhart ¹ L. Monat ¹¹ S. Nauerth ¹⁰ J.B. Page ¹¹ A. Poppe ¹ E. Querasser ¹ G. Ribordy ¹¹ S. Robyr ¹¹ L. Salvail ¹⁸ A.W. Sharpe ⁹ A.J. Shields ⁹ D. Stucki ⁴ M. Suda ¹ C. Tamas ¹ T. Themel ¹ R.T. Thew ⁴ y. Thoma ⁴ A. Treiber ¹³ P. Trinkler ¹¹ Rosa Tualle-Brouri ⁷ F. Vannel ⁴ N. Walenta ⁴ H. Weier ¹⁰ H. Weinfurter ^{10, 19} I. Wimberger ²⁰ Z.L. yuan ⁹ H. Zbinden ⁴ A. Zeilinger ^{13, 21}

1 AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology [Vienna]

2 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information

3 Télécom ParisTech

4 GAP - Group of Applied Physics [Geneva]

5 FI / MUNI - Faculty of Informatics [Brno]

6 Thales Research and Technology [Palaiseau]

7 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Optique quantique

LCFIO - Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique

8 UNIS - University of Surrey

9 Toshiba Research Europe Ltd

10 Department für Physik

11 IDQ - ID Quantique

12 Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information

13 Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information

14 SYRTE - Systèmes de Référence Temps Espace

15 IQC - Institute for Quantum Computing [Waterloo]

16 Institute of Theoretical Physics

17 Bearingpoint INFONOVA GmbH

18 DIRO - Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle [Montreal]

19 MPQ - Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik

20 Siemens AG Österreich

21 IQOQI - Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information [Innsbruck]

Abstract : The paper presents the architecture and functionality of the principal networking agent—the SECOQC node module, which enables the authentic classical communication required for key distillation, manages the generated key material, determines a communication path between any destinations in the network, and realizes end-to-end secure transport of key material between these destinations. The paper also illustrates the operation of the network in a number of typical exploitation regimes and gives an initial estimate of the network transmission capacity, defined as the maximum amount of key that can be exchanged, or alternatively the amount of information that can be transmitted with information theoretic security, between two arbitrary nodes.

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Physics [physics] / Quantum Physics [quant-ph]

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