Experimental quantum key distribution secure against malicious devices

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12863v1
• Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:54:02 GMT
• Title: Experimental quantum key distribution secure against malicious devices
• Authors: Wei Li, Victor Zapatero, Hao Tan, Kejin Wei, Hao Min, Wei-Yue Liu, Xiao Jiang, Sheng-Kai Liao, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Marcos Curty, Feihu Xu, Jian-Wei Pan
• Abstract summary: We implement a 1.25 GHz chip-based measurement-device-independent QKD system secure against malicious devices on the measurement and the users' sides. The secret key rate reaches 137 bps over a 24 dB channel loss.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The fabrication of quantum key distribution (QKD) systems typically involves several parties, thus providing Eve with multiple opportunities to meddle with the devices. As a consequence, conventional hardware and/or software hacking attacks pose natural threats to the security of practical QKD. Fortunately, if the number of corrupted devices is limited, the security can be restored by using redundant apparatuses. Here, we report on the demonstration of a secure QKD setup with optical devices and classical post-processing units possibly controlled by an eavesdropper. We implement a 1.25 GHz chip-based measurement-device-independent QKD system secure against malicious devices on \emph{both} the measurement and the users' sides. The secret key rate reaches 137 bps over a 24 dB channel loss. Our setup, benefiting from high clock rate, miniaturized transmitters and a cost-effective structure, provides a promising solution for widespread applications requiring uncompromising communication security.

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