A novel approach to reducing information leakage for quantum key distribution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13580v2
• Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 08:43:28 GMT
• Title: A novel approach to reducing information leakage for quantum key distribution
• Authors: Hao-Kun Mao, Qiang Zhao, Yu-Cheng Qiao, Bing-Ze Yan, Bing-Jie Xu, Ahmed A. Abd EL-Latif and Qiong Li
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel approach to further reduce the information leakage of quantum part and post-processing part. The information leakage of post-processing part caused solely by multi-photon pulses is considered twice in previous studies. We derive the formulas to calculate the amount of information leakage for decoy-BB84 and sending-or-not-sending twin-field protocols.
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• Abstract: Quantum key distribution (QKD) is an important branch of quantum information science as it holds promise for unconditionally secure communication. For QKD research, a central issue is to improve the final secure key rate (SKR) and the maximal transmission distance. To address this issue, most works focused on reducing the information leakage of QKD. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to further reduce the information leakage by specially considering the overlap between the information leakage of quantum part and post-processing part. The overlap means that the information leakage of post-processing part caused solely by multi-photon pulses is considered twice in previous studies, i.e., both in quantum part and post-processing part. Since the information carried by multi-photon pulses has been considered as completely known by Eve through the photon-number-splitting attack in quantum part, there is no need to consider it in post-processing part repetitively during the SKR calculation. Therefore, our approach can theoretically reduce the information leakage of a QKD protocol. Based on this idea, we derive the formulas to calculate the amount of information leakage for decoy-BB84 and sending-or-not-sending twin-field protocols. Simulation results for these two typical protocols also demonstrate that our approach evidently improves the SKR as well as the maximal transmission distance under practical experimental parameters.

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