Comment I: Istanbul Protocol in lowincome countries – A reply

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Reply to comment on Y-00 quantum secure communication protocol

Recently, a criticism of the Yuen protocol (αη scheme) was made. This letter shows that the claim by Nishioka, and Imai group(Mitsubishi and University of Tokyo) is incorrect before they discuss whether αη scheme is quantum or classical. This misunderstanding comes from that these authors disregard the concept of signal detection theory and the basic concept of Y-00. Several industries have sta...

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In the comment [1], Zanardi and Rasetti argue that several claims in our recent letter [2] are questionable. Here we show these claims remain true. Our points are that (i) the Hamiltonian (1) in Ref. [2] describes amplitude damping as well as phase damping; (ii) the free-Hamiltonian-elimination (FHE) has feasible implementation in practice and there exists a simple FHE procedure which is design...

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on " Disentangling residence time and temperature sensitivity of microbial decomposition in a global soil carbon model " The authors used a reduced complexity model (one pool soil decomposition with a temperature and moisture dependency) to study the sensitivity of the carbon stock projections to first order uncertainties. The relative contributions of decomposition (k) and temperature sensitiv...

Reply to Rachlin’s comment

The primary purpose of our article was to demonstrate unambiguously that matching does not necessarily follow from maximization of overall reinforcement rate, as appears to have been suggested by some writers. Evidently, Rachlin (1979) now accepts that as some slight contribution, since he raises the question, "But are there switching patterns for which matching and maximizing are the same?" wh...