Thwarting the photon-number-splitting attack with entanglement-enhanced BB84 quantum key distribution

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/14/4/043003MaRDI QIDQ5137632zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carl F. Sabottke, Chris D. Richardson, Petr M. Anisimov, Ulvi Yurtsever, Antia Lamas-Linares, Jonathan P. Dowling

Publication date 2 December 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4510

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

LOCC, teleportation, dense coding, remote state operations, distillation (81P48) Quantum cryptography (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P94)

Abstract: We develop an improvement to the weak laser pulse BB84 scheme for quantum key distribution, which utilizes entanglement to improve the security of the scheme and enhance its resilience to the photon-number-splitting attack. This protocol relies on the non-commutation of photon phase and number to detect an eavesdropper performing quantum non-demolition measurement on number. The potential advantages and disadvantages of this scheme are compared to the coherent decoy state protocol.

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