Key papers

• Unconditional Security Of Quantum Key Distribution Over Arbitrarily Long Distances (1998)
  Hoi-Kwong Lo, H. F. Chau
  23.69
• Quantum Key Distribution In The Holevo Limit (2000)
  Adan Cabello
  20.71
• Unconditional Optimality Of Gaussian Attacks Against Continuous-variable QKD (2006)
  Raul Garcia-Patron, Nicolas J. Cerf
  20.28
• Efficient Quantum Key Distribution Scheme And Proof Of Its Unconditional Security (2000)
  Hoi-Kwong Lo, H. F. Chau, M. Ardehali
  19.97
• Secure Deterministic Communication Without Entanglement (2004)
  M. Lucamarini, S. Mancini
  19.37
• Robust Polarization-based Quantum Key Distribution Over Collective-noise Channel (2003)
  J. -C. Boileau, D. Gottesman, R. Laflamme, et al.
  17.26
• Phase-remapping Attack In Practical Quantum Key Distribution Systems (2006)
  Chi-Hang Fred Fung, Bing Qi, Kiyoshi Tamaki, et al.
  17.26
• Comment On "quantum Key Distribution Without Alternative Measurements" (2000)
  Yong-Sheng Zhang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo
  14.19
• On The Role Of Memory Errors In Quantum Repeaters (2006)
  L. Hartmann, B. Kraus, H. -J. Briegel, et al.
  13.88
• A Novel Quantum Key Distribution Scheme With Orthogonal Product States (2001)
  Guo-Ping Guo, Chuan-Feng Li, Bao-Sen Shi, et al.
  13.65
• Fault Tolerant Quantum Key Distribution Protocol With Collective Random Unitary Noise (2004)
  X. B. Wang
  13.55
• Key Distillation From Quantum Channels Using Two-way Communication Protocols (2006)
  Joonwoo Bae, Antonio Acin
  13.44
• Secure And Efficient Decoy-state Quantum Key Distribution With Inexact Pulse Intensities (2006)
  X. B. Wang
  13.44
• Optimal Quantum Codes For Preventing Collective Amplitude Damping (1998)
  Lu-Ming Duan, Guang-Can Guo
  13.23
• Quantum Key Distribution Based On Private States: Unconditional Security Over Untrusted Channels With Zero Quantum Capacity (2006)
  Karol Horodecki, Michal Horodecki, Pawel Horodecki, et al.
  13.11
• Optimal Estimation Of One Parameter Quantum Channels (2004)
  Mohan Sarovar, G. J. Milburn
  13.05
• Security Proof Of A Three-state Quantum Key Distribution Protocol Without Rotational Symmetry (2006)
  Chi-Hang Fred Fung, Hoi-Kwong Lo
  12.81
• Efficient-phase-encoding Protocols For Continuous-variable Quantum Key Distribution Using Coherent States And Postselection (2006)
  Ryo Namiki, Takuya Hirano
  12.61
• Coherent State Quantum Key Distribution Without Random Basis Switching (2005)
  Christian Weedbrook, Andrew M. Lance, Warwick P. Bowen, et al.
  12.33
• Quantum Dense Key Distribution (2003)
  I. P. Degiovanni, I. Ruo Berchera, S. Castelletto, et al.
  12.25
• Unconditional Security Of The Bennett 1992 Quantum Key-distribution Scheme With Strong Reference Pulse (2006)
  Kiyoshi Tamaki, Norbert Lütkenhaus, Masato Koashi, et al.
  12.02
• Sequential Attack With Intensity Modulation On The Differential-phase-shift Quantum Key Distribution Protocol (2006)
  Toyohiro Tsurumaru
  11.58
• Intercept-resend Attacks In The Bennett-brassard 1984 Quantum Key Distribution Protocol With Weak Coherent Pulses (2004)
  Marcos Curty, Norbert Lütkenhaus
  11.49
• Witnessing Effective Entanglement In A Continuous Variable Prepare&measure Setup And Application To A QKD Scheme Using Postselection (2006)
  S. Lorenz, J. Rigas, M. Heid, et al.
  11.49
• Bell's Inequalities Detect Efficient Entanglement (2003)
  Antonio Acin, Nicolas Gisin, Lluis Masanes, et al.
  10.97
• Comment On "quantum Key Distribution For D-level Systems With Generalized Bell States" [phys. Rev. A 65, 052331 (2002)] (2005)
  Fei Gao, Fenzhuo Guo, Qiaoyan Wen, et al.
  10.97
• Modified Bennett-brassard 1984 Quantum Key Distribution With Two-way Classical Communications (2005)
  Kai Wen, Gui Lu Long
  10.21
• Improved Practical Decoy State Method In Quantum Key Distribution With Parametric Down Conversion Source (2007)
  Qin Wang, Xiang-Bin Wang, Gunnar Bjork, et al.
  9.23
• Cloning And Optimal Gaussian Individual Attacks For Continuous-variable Quantum Key Distribution Using Coherent States And Reverse Reconciliation (2005)
  Ryo Namiki, Masato Koashi, Nobuyuki Imoto
  7.81
• Robust Quantum Public-key Encryption With Applications To Quantum Key Distribution (2023)
  Giulio Malavolta, Michael Walter
  7.50
• Monotonicity Of The Quantum Linear Programming Bound (1998)
  Eric M. Rains
  7.16
• Secure Coherent-state Quantum Key Distribution Protocols With Efficient Reconciliation (2004)
  G. van Assche, S. Iblisdir, N. J. Cerf
  7.16
• On The Efficiency Of Classical And Quantum Secure Function Evaluation (2012)
  Severin Winkler, Jürg Wullschleger
  6.34
• A Search for High-Threshold Qutrit Magic State Distillation Routines (2024)
  Shiroman Prakash and Rishabh Singhal
  6.02
• A Family Of Quantum Protocols (2003)
  I. Devetak, A. W. Harrow, A. Winter
  5.24
• Robustness Of The BB84 Quantum Key Distribution Protocol Against General Coherent Attacks (2004)
  Georgios M. Nikolopoulos, Gernot Alber
  5.24
• Quantum error correction for long chains of trapped ions (2025)
  Min Ye and Nicolas Delfosse
  4.76
• Sample Complexities of Estimating Gumbel--Max Watermark Proportions with and without Reduction to Pivotal Statistics (2026)
  Shuwen Chai et al.
  4.33
• Benchmarking Optical Receivers for Quantum Communication and Randomness Certification (2026)
  Hamid Tebyanian
  4.33
• Information storage and transmission under Markovian noise (2025)
  Satvik Singh and Nilanjana Datta
  4.30
• Qubit Authentication (2001)
  Marcos Curty, David J. Santos, Esther Perez, et al.
  3.58
• Approximate Quantum Data Storage And Teleportation (2002)
  Thomas Laustsen, Klaus Molmer
  3.58
• The Classical Capacity For Continuous Variable Teleportation Channel (2006)
  Tao Qin, Meisheng Zhao, Yongde Zhang
  3.58
• Secret Sharing Without Monitoring Signal Disturbance (2016)
  Kejin Wei, Xiuqing Yang, Haiqiang Ma, et al.
  3.58
• Information Gain In Quantum Continual Measurements (2006)
  Albert Barchielli, Giancarlo Lupieri
  2.26
• Experimental Implementation Of Non-gaussian Attacks On A Continuous-variable Quantum Key Distribution System (2007)
  Jerome Lodewyck, Thierry Debuisschert, Raul Garcia-Patron, et al.
  2.26
• Optimizing Encoder Circuits of Entanglement-Assisted Quantum LDPC Codes via Beam Search (2026)
  Aditya Sodhani (1) et al.
  1.89
• Conditional channel entropy sets fundamental limits on thermodynamic quantum information processing (2026)
  Himanshu Badhani and Siddhartha Das
  1.78
• Neural Minimum Weight Perfect Matching for Quantum Error Codes (2026)
  Yotam Peled et al.
  1.61
• Optimal lower bound for quantum channel tomography in away-from-boundary regime (2026)
  Kean Chen and Zhicheng Zhang and Nengkun Yu
  1.61
• The hyperlink representation of entanglement and the inclusion-exclusion principle (2026)
  Silvia N. Santalla et al.
  1.61
• Quantum Rotation Diversity in Displaced Squeezed Binary Phase-Shift Keying (2026)
  Ioannis Krikidis
  1.61
• HyperNQ: A Hypergraph Neural Network Decoder for Quantum LDPC Codes (2025)
  Ameya S. Bhave et al.
  1.50
• Taming Barren Plateaus in Arbitrary Parameterized Quantum Circuits without Sacrificing Expressibility (2025)
  Zhenyu Chen et al.
  1.50
• Distributed fault-tolerant quantum memories over a 2xL array of qubit modules (2025)
  Edwin Tham et al.
  1.33
• Relaying Quantum Information (2025)
  Yigal Ilin and Uzi Pereg
  1.28
• Enhancing Decoding Performance using Efficient Error Learning (2025)
  Pavithran Iyer et al.
  1.28
• Flagged Extensions and Numerical Simulations for Quantum Channel Capacity: Bridging Theory and Computation (2025)
  Vahid Nourozi
  1.22
• Quantum Error Correction Exploiting Degeneracy to Approach the Hashing Bound (2025)
  Kenta Kasai
  1.22
• Advancing Finite-Length Quantum Error Correction Using Generalized Bicycle Codes (2025)
  Olai \AA. Mostad et al.
  1.17