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SargSplitting ​

Photon-number splitting: t^1.5 against BB84's t^2, and where they cross

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TestWhat it doesResult
test_ceiling_rootsarg_ceiling vanishes at μ=23t and clamps to zero past it.✅ pass
test_crossover_existsThe two ceilings cross once, at 7.702 km of 0.25 dB/km fibre, BB84 above before it and SARG04 after.✅ pass
test_optimal_intensityThe ceiling peaks at μ=2t, Branciard Eq. (107), where BB84's peaks at μ=t, Niederberger Eq. (29), equalling Branciard's (η/3)h2(p1)t3/2 with h2(p1)=0.60088.✅ pass
test_scaling_exponentsThe optimised ceilings scale as t3/2 for SARG04 and t2 for BB84, the advantage widening as the square root of the loss: 2.5335 at t = 0.1, 25.335 at t = 0.001.✅ pass