no code implementations • 26 Jan 2021 • Marc-Olivier Renou, David Trillo, Mirjam Weilenmann, Le Phuc Thinh, Armin Tavakoli, Nicolas Gisin, Antonio Acin, Miguel Navascues
While complex numbers are essential in mathematics, they are not needed to describe physical experiments, expressed in terms of probabilities, hence real numbers.
Quantum Physics
no code implementations • 23 Jun 2006 • Valerio Scarani, Nicolas Gisin, Nicolas Brunner, Lluis Masanes, Sergi Pino, Antonio Acin
The usual security proofs suppose that the authorized partners, Alice and Bob, have a perfect knowledge and control of their quantum systems and devices; for instance, they must be sure that the logical bits have been encoded in true qubits, and not in higher-dimensional systems.
Quantum Physics