Enhancing discrete-modulated continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution via quantum catalysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10432v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 07:59:02 GMT
• Title: Enhancing discrete-modulated continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution via quantum catalysis
• Authors: Wei Ye, Ying Guo, Yun Mao, Hai Zhong and Liyun Hu
• Abstract summary: discrete modulation can make up for the shortage of transmission distance in measurement device continuous-variable key distribution. We suggest a quantum (QC) approach for enhancing the performance of the discrete-modulated (DM) MDI-CVQKD.
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• Abstract: The discrete modulation can make up for the shortage of transmission distance in measurement-device-independent continuous-variable quantum key distribution (MDI-CVQKD) that has an unique advantage against all side-channel attacks but also challenging for the further performance improvement. Here we suggest a quantum catalysis (QC) approach for enhancing the performance of the discrete-modulated (DM) MDI-CVQKD in terms of the achievable secret key rate and lengthening the maximal transmission distance. The numerical simulation results show that the QC-based MDI-CVQKD with discrete modulation that involves a zero-photon catalysis (ZPC) operation can not only obtain a higher secret key rate than the original DM protocol, but also contributes to the reasonable increase of the corresponding optimal variance. As for the extreme asymmetric and symmetric cases, the secret key rate and maximal transmission distance of the ZPC-involved DM MDI-CVQKD system can be further improved under the same parameters. This approach enables the system to tolerate lower reconciliation efficiency, which will promote the practical implementations with state-of-art technology.

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