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Secure Coherent-state Quantum Key Distribution Protocols with Efficient Reconciliation

G. Van Assche, S. Iblisdir, N. J. Cerf

abstract: We study the equivalence between a realistic quantum key distribution protocol using coherent states and homodyne detection and a formal entanglement purification protocol. Maximally-entangled qubit pairs that one can extract in the formal protocol correspond to secret key bits in the realistic protocol. More specifically, we define a qubit encoding scheme that allows the formal protocol to produce more than one entangled qubit pair per coherent state, or equivalently for the realistic protocol, more than one secret key bit. The entanglement parameters are estimated using quantum tomography. We analyze the properties of the encoding scheme and investigate its application to the important case of the attenuation channel.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0410031
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
REVTeX, 11 pages, 2 figures
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevA.71.052304
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0410031
journal_ref:
Phys. Rev. A 71, p. 052304 (2005)
created:
2004-10-05

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