OPTIMAL EAVESDROPPING ON NOISY STATES IN QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION

DOI10.1142/S0219749909004554MaRDI QIDQ3622508zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 28 April 2009

Published in International Journal of Quantum Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0587

zbMATH Keywords

eavesdroppingmixed statesmutual informationquantum key distributionwhite noise

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Cryptography (94A60)

Abstract: We study eavesdropping in quantum key distribution with the six state protocol,when the signal states are mixed with white noise. This situation may arise either when Alice deliberately adds noise to the signal states before they leave her lab, or in a realistic scenario where Eve cannot replace the noisy quantum channel by a noiseless one. We find Eve's optimal mutual information with Alice, for individual attacks, as a function of the qubit error rate. Our result is that added quantum noise can make quantum key distribution more robust against eavesdropping.

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