The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

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Abstract: Free-space quantum cryptography holds significant potential for enabling global quantum communication networks. This paper proposes a free-space continuous-variable quantum secret sharing ...