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高维相干单向量子密钥分发

High-dimensional coherent one-way quantum key distribution

Kfir Sulimany, Guy Pelc, Rom Dudkiewicz, Simcha Korenblit, Hagai S. Eisenberg, Yaron Bromberg, Michael Ben-Or

AI总结:

提出一种仅需标准二维系统硬件的任意维度QKD新协议,在40 km光纤实验中使安全密钥率提升两倍,仅需软件更新即可提升现有时间相位QKD系统性能。

摘要:

高维量子密钥分发(QKD)提供了安全的通信,其安全密钥率超越了利用二维编码的QKD协议所能实现的密钥率。然而,现有的高维QKD协议需要额外的实验资源,如多端口干涉仪和多个探测器,从而提高了实用高维系统的成本并限制了其使用。在此,我们提出并分析了一种用于任意维度QKD的新颖协议,该协议仅需标准二维系统的硬件。我们提供了针对个体攻击和相干攻击的安全性证明,设定了安全密钥率的上限和下限。然后,我们在标准二维QKD系统中通过40 km光纤链路测试了新的高维协议。与标准的二维相干单向协议相比,新协议使安全密钥率提高了两倍,且无需对系统进行任何硬件修改。因此,这项工作通过仅进行软件更新,具有提升已部署的时间相位(time-bin)QKD系统性能的巨大潜力。此外,其应用还扩展到QKD量子比特(qudits)的不同编码方案。

英文摘要:

High-dimensional quantum key distribution (QKD) offers secure communication, with secure key rates that surpass those achievable by QKD protocols utilizing two-dimensional encoding. However, existing high-dimensional QKD protocols require additional experimental resources, such as multiport interferometers and multiple detectors, thus raising the cost of practical high-dimensional systems and limiting their use. Here, we present and analyze a novel protocol for arbitrary-dimensional QKD, that requires only the hardware of a standard two-dimensional system. We provide security proofs against individual attacks and coherent attacks, setting an upper and lower bound on the secure key rates. Then, we test the new high-dimensional protocol in a standard two-dimensional QKD system over a 40 km fiber link. The new protocol yields a two-fold enhancement of the secure key rate compared to the standard two-dimensional coherent one-way protocol, without introducing any hardware modifications to the system. This work, therefore, holds great potential to enhance the performance of already deployed time-bin QKD systems through a software update alone. Furthermore, its applications extend across different encoding schemes of QKD qudits.

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