Performance analysis for Brandt's conclusive entangling probe

DOI10.1007/S11128-005-0005-YMaRDI QIDQ2491385zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Publication date 29 May 2006

Published in Quantum Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510009

zbMATH Keywords

entanglementquantum computationQuantum cryptographyquantum key distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum computation (81P68) Cryptography (94A60)

Abstract: The Fuchs-Peres-Brandt (FPB) probe realizes the most powerful individual attack on Bennett-Brassard 1984 quantum key distribution by means of a single controlled-NOT gate in which Alice's transmitted qubit becomes the control-qubit input, Bob's received qubit is the control-qubit output, and Eve supplies the target-qubit input and measures the target-qubit output. The FPB probe uses the minimum-error-probability projective measurement for discriminating between the target-qubit output states that are perfectly correlated with Bob's sifted bit value when that bit is correctly received. This paper analyzes a recently proposed modification of the FPB attack in which Eve's projective measurement is replaced by a probability operator-valued measurement chosen to unambiguously discriminate between the same two target-qubit output states.

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