Device-independent quantum key distribution based on routed Bell tests

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01202v1
• Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 15:59:09 GMT
• Title: Device-independent quantum key distribution based on routed Bell tests
• Authors: Tristan Le Roy-Deloison, Edwin Peter Lobo, Jef Pauwels, Stefano Pironio,
• Abstract summary: We investigate DIQKD protocols based on a routed setup. In these protocols, photons from the source are routed by an actively controlled switch to a nearby test device instead of the distant one. We find that in an ideal case routed DIQKD protocols can significantly improve detection efficiency requirements, by up to $sim 30%$.
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• Abstract: Photon losses are the main obstacle to fully photonic implementations of device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD). Motivated by recent work showing that routed Bell scenarios offer increased robustness to detection inefficiencies for the certification of long-range quantum correlations, we investigate DIQKD protocols based on a routed setup. In these protocols, in some of the test rounds, photons from the source are routed by an actively controlled switch to a nearby test device instead of the distant one. We show how to analyze the security of these protocols and compute lower bounds on the key rates using non-commutative polynomial optimization and the Brown-Fawzi-Fazwi method. We determine lower bounds on the asymptotic key rates of several simple two-qubit routed DIQKD protocols based on CHSH or BB84 correlations and compare their performance to standard protocols. We find that in an ideal case routed DIQKD protocols can significantly improve detection efficiency requirements, by up to $\sim 30\%$, compared to their non-routed counterparts. Notably, the routed BB84 protocol achieves a positive key rate with a detection efficiency as low as $50\%$ for the distant device, the minimal threshold for any QKD protocol featuring two untrusted measurements. However, the advantages we find are highly sensitive to noise and losses affecting the short-range correlations involving the additional test device.

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