Quantum key distribution with entangled photon sources

作     者：Xiongfeng Ma Chi-Hang Fred Fung Hoi-Kwong Lo 

作者机构：Univ Toronto Ctr Quantum Informat & Quantum Control Dept Elect & Comp Engn Toronto ON M5S 1A7 Canada Univ Toronto Dept Phys Toronto ON M5S 1A7 Canada 

出 版 物：《Physical Review A》 (物理学评论A辑：原子、分子和光学物理学)

年 卷 期：2007年第76卷第1期

页      面：012307-012307页

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学科分类：070207[理学-光学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0803[工学-光学工程] 0702[理学-物理学] 

主　　题：UNCONDITIONAL SECURITY CRYPTOGRAPHY SYSTEMS BELL THEOREM PROOF SPACE COMMUNICATION PLUG 

摘      要：A parametric down-conversion (PDC) source can be used as either a triggered single-photon source or an entangled-photon source in quantum key distribution (QKD). The triggering PDC QKD has already been studied in the literature. On the other hand, a model and a post-processing protocol for the entanglement PDC QKD are still missing. We fill in this important gap by proposing such a model and a post-processing protocol for the entanglement PDC QKD. Although the PDC model is proposed to study the entanglement-based QKD, we emphasize that our generic model may also be useful for other non-QKD experiments involving a PDC source. Since an entangled PDC source is a basis-independent source, we apply Koashi and Preskill’s security analysis to the entanglement PDC QKD. We also investigate the entanglement PDC QKD with two-way classical communications. We find that the recurrence scheme increases the key rate and the Gottesman-Lo protocol helps tolerate higher channel losses. By simulating a recent 144−km open-air PDC experiment, we compare three implementations: entanglement PDC QKD, triggering PDC QKD, and coherent-state QKD. The simulation result suggests that the entanglement PDC QKD can tolerate higher channel losses than the coherent-state QKD. The coherent-state QKD with decoy states is able to achieve highest key rate in the low- and medium-loss regions. By applying the Gottesman-Lo two-way post-processing protocol, the entanglement PDC QKD can tolerate up to 70dB combined channel losses (35dB for each channel) provided that the PDC source is placed in between Alice and Bob. After considering statistical fluctuations, the PDC setup can tolerate up to 53dB channel losses.