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Main Authors: Sanvito, Alberto, Cassina, Silvia, Lamperti, Marco, Notarnicola, Michele N., Olivares, Stefano, Allevi, Alessia
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07507
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  • In quantum communication protocols, the use of photon-number-resolving detectors could open new perspectives by broadening the way to encode and decode information, and merging the properties of discrete and continuous variables. In this work, we consider a quantum channel exploiting a Silicon-photomultiplier-based receiver and evaluate its performance for quantum communication protocols under three possible configurations, defined by different post-processing of the detection outcomes. We investigate two scenarios: information transmission over the channel, quantified by the mutual information, and continuous-variable quantum key distribution. The preliminary results encourage further use of this detection scheme in extended networks.