scholarly journals Practical Plug-and-Play Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution With Polarization Division Multiplexing

IEEE Access ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 58587-58593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang hoon Park ◽  
Min Ki Woo ◽  
Byung Kwon Park ◽  
Min Soo Lee ◽  
Yong-Su Kim ◽  
...  
2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujun Choi ◽  
Osung Kwon ◽  
Minki Woo ◽  
Kyunghwan Oh ◽  
Sang-Wook Han ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang-Zhao Tang ◽  
Shi-Hai Sun ◽  
Feihu Xu ◽  
Huan Chen ◽  
Chun-Yan Li ◽  
...  

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1299
Author(s):  
Xingyu Wang ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
Tianyi Wu ◽  
Chang Guo ◽  
Yijun Zhang ◽  
...  

Modulating retro-reflector (MRR), originally introduced to support laser communication, relieves most of the weight, power, and pointing requirements to the ground station. In this paper, a plug-and-play measurement device independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) scheme with MRR is proposed not only to eliminate detector side channels and allow an untrusted satellite relay between two users, but also to simplify the requirements set-ups in practical flexible moving scenarios. The plug-and-play architecture compensates for the polarization drift during the transmission to provide superior performance in implementing the MDI-QKD on a free-space channel, and the MRR device is adopted to relax the requirements on both communication terminals. A double-pass correlated turbulent channel model is presented to investigate the complex and unstable channel characteristics caused by the atmospheric turbulence. Furthermore, the security of the modified MDI-QKD scheme is analyzed under some classical attacks and the simulation results indicate the feasibility under the situation that the system performance deteriorates with the increase of fading correlation coefficient and the turbulence intensity, which provides a meaningful step towards an MDI-QKD based on the moving platforms to join a dynamic quantum network with untrusted relays.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Weilong Wang ◽  
Kiyoshi Tamaki ◽  
Marcos Curty

AbstractMeasurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) can remove all detection side-channels from quantum communication systems. The security proofs require, however, that certain assumptions on the sources are satisfied. This includes, for instance, the requirement that there is no information leakage from the transmitters of the senders, which unfortunately is very difficult to guarantee in practice. In this paper we relax this unrealistic assumption by presenting a general formalism to prove the security of MDI-QKD with leaky sources. With this formalism, we analyze the finite-key security of two prominent MDI-QKD schemes—a symmetric three-intensity decoy-state MDI-QKD protocol and a four-intensity decoy-state MDI-QKD protocol—and determine their robustness against information leakage from both the intensity modulator and the phase modulator of the transmitters. Our work shows that MDI-QKD is feasible within a reasonable time frame of signal transmission given that the sources are sufficiently isolated. Thus, it provides an essential reference for experimentalists to ensure the security of implementations of MDI-QKD in the presence of information leakage.


2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Cao ◽  
Yu-Huai Li ◽  
Kui-Xing Yang ◽  
Yang-Fan Jiang ◽  
Shuang-Lin Li ◽  
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