High-Rate Point-to-Multipoint Quantum Key Distribution using Coherent States

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02391v1
• Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 14:21:33 GMT
• Title: High-Rate Point-to-Multipoint Quantum Key Distribution using Coherent States
• Authors: Yiming Bian and Yi-Chen Zhang and Chao Zhou and Song Yu and Zhengyu Li and Hong Guo
• Abstract summary: Quantum key distribution (QKD) which enables information-theoretically security is now heading towards quantum secure networks. It requires high-performance and cost-effective protocols while increasing the number of users. Here, we show a 'protocol solution' using continuous-variable quantum information.
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• Abstract: Quantum key distribution (QKD) which enables information-theoretically security is now heading towards quantum secure networks. It requires high-performance and cost-effective protocols while increasing the number of users. Unfortunately, qubit-implemented protocols only allow one receiver to respond to the prepared signal at a time, thus cannot support multiple users natively and well satisfy the network demands. Here, we show a 'protocol solution' using continuous-variable quantum information. A coherent-state point-to-multipoint protocol is proposed to simultaneously support multiple independent QKD links between a single transmitter and massive receivers. Every prepared coherent state is measured by all receivers to generate raw keys, then processed with a secure and high-efficient key distillation method to remove the correlations between different QKD links. It can achieve remarkably high key rates even with a hundred of access points and shows the potential improvement of two orders of magnitude. This scheme is a promising step towards a high-rate multi-user solution in a scalable quantum secure network.

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