Entanglement of Gaussian states and the applicability to quantum key distribution over fading channels

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/14/9/093048MaRDI QIDQ5137724zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Vladyslav C. Usenko, Bettina Heim, Christian Peuntinger, Christoffer Wittmann, C. Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs, Radim Filip

Publication date 2 December 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4307

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cryptography (94A60) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Entanglement measures, concurrencies, separability criteria (81P42) Quantum channels, fidelity (81P47)

Abstract: Entanglement properties of Gaussian states of light as well as the security of continuous variable quantum key distribution with Gaussian states in free-space fading channels are studied. These qualities are shown to be sensitive to the statistical properties of the transmittance distribution in the cases when entanglement is strong or when channel excess noise is present. Fading, i.e. transmission fluctuations, caused by beam wandering due to atmospheric turbulence, is a frequent challenge in free-space communication. We introduce a method of fading discrimination and subsequent post-selection of the corresponding sub-states and show that it can improve the entanglement resource and restore the security of the key distribution over a realistic fading link. Furthermore, the optimal post-selection strategy in combination with an optimized entangled resource is shown to drastically increase the protocol robustness to excess noise, which is confirmed for experimentally measured fading channel characteristics. The stability of the result against finite data ensemble size and imperfect channel estimation is also addressed.

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