Fully passive quantum key distribution with parametric down-conversion source

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12651v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:57:05 GMT
• Title: Fully passive quantum key distribution with parametric down-conversion source
• Authors: Jia-Wei Ying, Qi Zhang, Shi-Pu Gu, Xing-Fu Wang, Lan Zhou, Yu-Bo Sheng,
• Abstract summary: fully passive source is capable of passively generating decoy states and performing passive encoding simultaneously. Existing fully passive QKD protocol and experiments exploit phase-randomized coherent pulses.
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• Abstract: The fully passive source is capable of passively generating decoy states and performing passive encoding simultaneously, avoiding the side-channel risks caused by active modulation operations at the source end, thus effectively enhance the security in quantum key distribution (QKD). Existing fully passive QKD protocol and experiments exploit phase-randomized coherent pulses. In this paper, we propose a fully passive QKD protocol using parametric down-conversion source. The decoy state generation and encoding operation can be carried out passively by parameter down-conversion progress. This protocol has several advantages. First, it can also eliminate all side channels in active modulators. Second, compared with fully passive QKD protocol with phase-randomized coherent pulses, our protocol can significantly increase the key rate and extend the communication distance. Meanwhile, in terms of the transmission rate, our protocol is also closer to that of actively modulated QKD and can achieve fully passive modulation with fewer resources. Moreover, combined with measurement-device-independent (MDI) QKD, this protocol can even potentially achieve robustness against side channels in both detectors and modulators.

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