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Optical communication without photons

Nicolas Gisin
Phys. Rev. A 88, 030301(R) – Published 25 September 2013

Abstract

We show how communication without a physical system carrying the information from the sender to the receiver can be realized. The main point is that sending the vacuum state is not nothing. This extends the recent work by Salih et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 170502 (2013)].

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  • Received 22 May 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.88.030301

©2013 American Physical Society

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Nicolas Gisin

  • Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, 20 rue de l'cole de Médecine, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

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Vol. 88, Iss. 3 — September 2013

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