Cryptographie quantiqueLa cryptographie quantique consiste à utiliser les propriétés de la physique quantique pour établir des protocoles de cryptographie qui permettent d'atteindre des niveaux de sécurité qui sont prouvés ou conjecturés non atteignables en utilisant uniquement des phénomènes classiques (c'est-à-dire non-quantiques). Un exemple important de cryptographie quantique est la distribution quantique de clés, qui permet de distribuer une clé de chiffrement secrète entre deux interlocuteurs distants, tout en assurant la sécurité de la transmission grâce aux lois de la physique quantique et de la théorie de l'information.
Copper conductorCopper has been used in electrical wiring since the invention of the electromagnet and the telegraph in the 1820s. The invention of the telephone in 1876 created further demand for copper wire as an electrical conductor. Copper is the electrical conductor in many categories of electrical wiring. Copper wire is used in power generation, power transmission, power distribution, telecommunications, electronics circuitry, and countless types of electrical equipment. Copper and its alloys are also used to make electrical contacts.
Common cause and special cause (statistics)Common and special causes are the two distinct origins of variation in a process, as defined in the statistical thinking and methods of Walter A. Shewhart and W. Edwards Deming. Briefly, "common causes", also called natural patterns, are the usual, historical, quantifiable variation in a system, while "special causes" are unusual, not previously observed, non-quantifiable variation.
