Practical No-Switching Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution with Biased Quadrature Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00277v1
• Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 02:02:56 GMT
• Title: Practical No-Switching Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution with Biased Quadrature Detection
• Authors: Jiale Mi, Yiming Bian, Lu Fan, Song Yu, Yichen Zhang
• Abstract summary: The security of an ideal No-Switching protocol has been proved against general attacks in finite-size regime and composable security framework. We propose a modified No-Switching protocol with biased quadrature detection, where the asymmetry of the heterodyne detection is modeled to match the practical systems. An optimization strategy is proposed to achieve the optimal secret key rate by adjusting the transmittance of the beam splitter.
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• Abstract: Continuous-variable quantum key distribution protocol using coherent states and heterodyne detection, called No-Switching protocol, is widely used in practical systems due to the simple experimental setup without basis switching and easy assessment to phase information. The security of an ideal No-Switching protocol has been proved against general attacks in finite-size regime and composable security framework, whose heterodyne detector consists of a beam splitter with transmittance of $50\%$ and two ideal homodyne detectors. However, the transmittance of a beam splitter is inaccurate and the two detectors always have different quantum efficiency and electronic noise, which introduce asymmetry into the heterodyne detection, and further lead to the mismatch between the ideal protocol and practical systems, thereby overestimating the secret key rate and resulting in a practical security loophole. In this paper, we close this loophole by proposing a modified No-Switching protocol with biased quadrature detection, where the asymmetry of the heterodyne detection is modeled to match the practical systems, and the security of the protocol is analyzed in asymptotic and finite-size regimes. Further, an optimization strategy is proposed to achieve the optimal secret key rate by adjusting the transmittance of the beam splitter. Simulation results show the necessity of considering the asymmetry in heterodyne detection and the effectiveness of the optimization, which provides a promising way to realize a practical secure and high-performance No-Switching system.

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