A fully passive transmitter for decoy-state quantum key distribution
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| author | Zapatero, Víctor Wang, Wenyuan Curty, Marcos |
| author_facet | Zapatero, Víctor Wang, Wenyuan Curty, Marcos |
| contents | A passive quantum key distribution (QKD) transmitter generates the quantum states prescribed by a QKD protocol at random, combining a fixed quantum mechanism and a post-selection step. By avoiding the use of active optical modulators externally driven by random number generators, passive QKD transmitters offer immunity to modulator side channels and potentially enable higher frequencies of operation. Recently, the first linear optics setup suitable for passive decoy-state QKD has been proposed. In this work, we simplify the prototype and adopt sharply different approaches for BB84 polarization encoding and decoy-state generation. On top of it, we elaborate a tight custom-made security analysis surpassing an unnecessary assumption and a post-selection step that are central to the former proposal. |
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| spellingShingle | A fully passive transmitter for decoy-state quantum key distribution Zapatero, Víctor Wang, Wenyuan Curty, Marcos Quantum Physics A passive quantum key distribution (QKD) transmitter generates the quantum states prescribed by a QKD protocol at random, combining a fixed quantum mechanism and a post-selection step. By avoiding the use of active optical modulators externally driven by random number generators, passive QKD transmitters offer immunity to modulator side channels and potentially enable higher frequencies of operation. Recently, the first linear optics setup suitable for passive decoy-state QKD has been proposed. In this work, we simplify the prototype and adopt sharply different approaches for BB84 polarization encoding and decoy-state generation. On top of it, we elaborate a tight custom-made security analysis surpassing an unnecessary assumption and a post-selection step that are central to the former proposal. |
| title | A fully passive transmitter for decoy-state quantum key distribution |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12516 |