Single-Photon Advantage in Quantum Cryptography Beyond QKD
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| author | Vajner, Daniel A. Kaymazlar, Koray Drauschke, Fenja Rickert, Lucas von Helversen, Martin Liu, Hanqing Li, Shulun Ni, Haiqiao Niu, Zhichuan Pappa, Anna Heindel, Tobias |
| author_facet | Vajner, Daniel A. Kaymazlar, Koray Drauschke, Fenja Rickert, Lucas von Helversen, Martin Liu, Hanqing Li, Shulun Ni, Haiqiao Niu, Zhichuan Pappa, Anna Heindel, Tobias |
| contents | Quantum key distribution (QKD) can be used to establish a secret key between trusted parties. Many practical use-cases in communication networks, however, involve parties who do not trust each other. A fundamental cryptographic building block for such distrustful scenarios is quantum coin flipping, which has been investigated only in few experimental studies to date, all of which used probabilistic quantum light sources imposing fundamental limitations. Here, we experimentally implement a quantum strong coin flipping protocol using single-photon states and demonstrate a quantum advantage compared to both classical realizations and implementations using faint laser pulses. We achieve this by employing a state-of-the-art deterministic quantum dot light source in combination with fast, random polarization-state encoding enabling sufficiently low quantum bit error ratio. By demonstrating a single-photon quantum advantage in a cryptographic primitive beyond QKD, our work represents a major advance towards the implementation of complex cryptographic tasks in a future quantum internet. |
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| spellingShingle | Single-Photon Advantage in Quantum Cryptography Beyond QKD Vajner, Daniel A. Kaymazlar, Koray Drauschke, Fenja Rickert, Lucas von Helversen, Martin Liu, Hanqing Li, Shulun Ni, Haiqiao Niu, Zhichuan Pappa, Anna Heindel, Tobias Quantum Physics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Quantum key distribution (QKD) can be used to establish a secret key between trusted parties. Many practical use-cases in communication networks, however, involve parties who do not trust each other. A fundamental cryptographic building block for such distrustful scenarios is quantum coin flipping, which has been investigated only in few experimental studies to date, all of which used probabilistic quantum light sources imposing fundamental limitations. Here, we experimentally implement a quantum strong coin flipping protocol using single-photon states and demonstrate a quantum advantage compared to both classical realizations and implementations using faint laser pulses. We achieve this by employing a state-of-the-art deterministic quantum dot light source in combination with fast, random polarization-state encoding enabling sufficiently low quantum bit error ratio. By demonstrating a single-photon quantum advantage in a cryptographic primitive beyond QKD, our work represents a major advance towards the implementation of complex cryptographic tasks in a future quantum internet. |
| title | Single-Photon Advantage in Quantum Cryptography Beyond QKD |
| topic | Quantum Physics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14993 |