# Information communicated by entangled photon pairs

@article{Brougham2012InformationCB,
title={Information communicated by entangled photon pairs},
author={Thomas Brougham and Stephen M. Barnett},
journal={Physical Review A},
year={2012},
volume={85},
pages={032322}
}
• Published 7 March 2012
• Physics
• Physical Review A
A key goal of quantum communication is to determine the maximum number of bits shared between two quantum systems. An important example of this is in entanglement-based quantum key distribution (QKD) schemes. A realistic treatment of this general communication problem must take account of the nonideal nature of the entanglement source and the detectors. The aim of this paper is to give such a treatment. We obtain analytic expression for the mutual information in terms of experimental parameters…
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