Differential-phase-shift QKD with practical Mach-Zehnder interferometer
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.11760v1
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 03:38:02 GMT
- Title: Differential-phase-shift QKD with practical Mach-Zehnder interferometer
- Authors: Akihiro Mizutani, Masanori Terashita, Junya Matsubayashi, Shogo Mori, Ibuki Matsukura, Suzuna Tagawa, Kiyoshi Tamaki,
- Abstract summary: We enhance the implementation security of the DPS protocol by incorporating a major imperfection in the measurement unit.
Our numerical simulations demonstrate that even with fluctuations of $pm0.5%$ in the transmittance from the ideal value, the key rate degrades only by a factor of 0.57.
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- Abstract: Differential-phase-shift (DPS) quantum key distribution stands as a promising protocol due to its simple implementation, which can be realized with a train of coherent pulses and a passive measurement unit. Besides, this protocol has the advantage of being robust against imperfections in the light source. Unfortunately, however, as for the measurement unit, existing security proofs put unrealistic assumptions on it, which could be security loopholes in actual implementations. In this paper, we enhance the implementation security of the DPS protocol by incorporating a major imperfection in the measurement unit. Specifically, our proof enables us to employ practical beam splitters with a known range of the transmittance rather than the one with exactly $50\%$, as was assumed in the existing security proofs. Our numerical simulations demonstrate that even with fluctuations of $\pm0.5\%$ in the transmittance from the ideal value, the key rate degrades only by a factor of 0.57. This result highlights the feasibility of the DPS protocol with practical measurement setups.
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