Xiao Tang (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Xiao Tang

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NIST physicist Xiao Tang and colleagues have developed a quantum communications system that uses single photons to produce a "raw" encryption key at the rate of 4 million bits per second.

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