Enhancing Quantum Key Distribution with Entanglement Distillation and Classical Advantage Distillation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19334v2
• Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:57:54 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Quantum Key Distribution with Entanglement Distillation and Classical Advantage Distillation
• Authors: Shin Sun, Kenneth Goodenough, Daniel Bhatti, David Elkouss,
• Abstract summary: We present a two-stage distillation scheme concatenating entanglement distillation and classical advantage distillation. We show that our scheme achieves finite key rates even in the high-noise regime. The proposed scheme is well-suited for near-term quantum key distribution tasks.
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• Abstract: Realizing secure communication between distant parties is one of quantum technology's main goals. Although quantum key distribution promises information-theoretic security for sharing a secret key, the key rate heavily depends on the level of noise in the quantum channel. To overcome the noise, both quantum and classical techniques exist, i.e., entanglement distillation and classical advantage distillation. So far, these techniques have only been used separately from each other. Herein, we present a two-stage distillation scheme concatenating entanglement distillation with classical advantage distillation. For advantage distillation, we utilize a fixed protocol, specifically, the repetition code; in the case of entanglement distillation, we employ an enumeration algorithm to find the optimal protocol. We test our scheme for different noisy entangled states and demonstrate its quantitative advantage: our two-stage distillation scheme achieves finite key rates even in the high-noise regime where entanglement distillation or advantage distillation alone cannot afford key sharing. We also calculate the security bounds for relevant QKD protocols with our key distillation scheme and show that they exceed the previous security bounds with only advantage distillation. Since the advantage distillation part does not introduce further requirements on quantum resources, the proposed scheme is well-suited for near-term quantum key distribution tasks.

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