Discrete-phase-randomized coherent state source and its application in quantum key distribution

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/17/5/053014MaRDI QIDQ5144007zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Zhu Cao, Zhen Zhang, Hoi-Kwong Lo, Xiongfeng Ma

Publication date 14 January 2021

Published in New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3217

zbMATH Keywords

discrete-phase-randomizatuinsmall amount of randomnes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bergman spaces and Fock spaces (30H20) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Quantum coding (general) (81P70) Quantum cryptography (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P94) Coherent states (81R30)

Abstract: Coherent state photon sources are widely used in quantum information processing. In many applications, such as quantum key distribution (QKD), a coherent state is functioned as a mixture of Fock states by assuming its phase is continuously randomized. In practice, such a crucial assumption is often not satisfied and, therefore, the security of existing QKD experiments is not guaranteed. To bridge this gap, we provide a rigorous security proof of QKD with discrete-phase-randomized coherent state sources. Our results show that the performance of the discrete-phase randomization case is close to its continuous counterpart with only a small number (say, 10) of discrete phases. Comparing to the conventional continuous phase randomization case, where an infinite amount of random bits are required, our result shows that only a small amount (say, 4 bits) of randomness is needed.

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