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Effects of multi-photon states in the calibration of single-photon detectors based on a portable bi-photon source
Sujeet Pani, Duncan Earl, Francisco Elohim Becerra
Single-photon detectors (SPDs) are ubiquitous in many protocols for quantum imaging, sensing, and communications. Many of these protocols critically depend on the precise knowledge…
Authentication of Smart Grid Communications using Quantum Key Distribution
Muneer Alshowkan, Philip Evans, Michael Starke +2
Smart grid solutions enable utilities and customers to better monitor and control energy use via information and communications technology. Information technology is intended to im…
Trusted Node QKD at an Electrical Utility
Philip G. Evans, Muneer Alshowkan, Duncan Earl +6
Challenges facing the deployment of quantum key distribution (QKD) systems in critical infrastructure protection applications include the optical loss-key rate tradeoff, addition o…
Random Control over Quantum Open Systems
Jun Jing, C. Allen Bishop, Lian-Ao Wu
Parametric fluctuations or stochastic signals are introduced into the control pulse sequence to investigate the feasibility of random control over quantum open systems. In a large…
Default Risk Modeling Beyond the First-Passage Approximation: Extended Black-Cox Model
Yuri A. Katz, Nikolai V. Shokhirev
We develop a generalization of the Black-Cox structural model of default risk. The extended model captures uncertainty related to firm's ability to avoid default even if company's…