Flexible polar encoding for information reconciliation in QKD

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03100v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:01:10 GMT
• Title: Flexible polar encoding for information reconciliation in QKD
• Authors: Snehasis Addy, Sabyasachi Dutta, Somnath Panja, Kunal Dey, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, and Daniel Oblak
• Abstract summary: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) enables two parties to establish a common secret key that is information-theoretically secure. Errors that are generally considered to be due to the adversary's tempering with the quantum channel need to be corrected using classical communication over a public channel. We show that the reliability sequence can be derived and used to design an encoder independent of the choice of decoder.
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• Abstract: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) enables two parties to establish a common secret key that is information-theoretically secure by transmitting random bits that are encoded as qubits and sent over a quantum channel, followed by classical information processing steps known as information reconciliation and key extraction. Transmission of information over a quantum channel introduces errors that are generally considered to be due to the adversary's tempering with the quantum channel and needs to be corrected using classical communication over an (authenticated) public channel. Commonly used error-correcting codes in the context of QKD include cascade codes, low-density parity check (LDPC) codes, and more recently polar codes. In this work, we explore the applicability of designing of a polar code encoder based on a channel reliability sequence. We show that the reliability sequence can be derived and used to design an encoder independent of the choice of decoder. We then implement our design and evaluate its performance against previous implementations of polar code encoders for QKD as well as other typical error-correcting codes. A key advantage of our approach is the modular design which decouples the encoder and decoder design and allows independent optimization of each. Our work leads to more versatile polar code-based error reconciliation in QKD systems that would result in deployment in a broader range of scenarios.

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