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QKD Field Trial

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Researchers demonstrated a new simple QKD system over a fiber network in Padua, Italy. A map of the city center [©2021 Google] shows that the transmitter was placed at the ICT Center of UniPD while the receiver was located in the Department of Mathematics. The transmitter and the receiver were connected by 3.4 km of deployed fibers.

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QuantumFuture Group, Università degli Studi di Padova

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