Experimental Multi-Dimensional Side-Channel-Secure Quantum Key Distribution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19242v1
• Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:55:06 GMT
• Title: Experimental Multi-Dimensional Side-Channel-Secure Quantum Key Distribution
• Abstract summary: Quantum key distribution (QKD) theoretically provides unconditional security between remote parties.<n>The side-channel-secure (SCS)-QKD protocol, which only requires bounding the upper limits of the intensities for the two states, theoretically provides a rigorous solution to the challenge.<n>Here, we demonstrate a practical implementation of SCS-QKD, achieving a secure key rate of $6.60$ kbps through a 50.5 km fibre and a maximum distribution distance of 101.1 km.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Quantum key distribution (QKD) theoretically provides unconditional security between remote parties. However, guaranteeing practical security through device characterisation alone is challenging in real-world implementations due to the multi-dimensional spaces in which the devices may be operated. The side-channel-secure (SCS)-QKD protocol, which only requires bounding the upper limits of the intensities for the two states, theoretically provides a rigorous solution to the challenge and achieves measurement-device-independent security in detection and security for whatever multi-dimensional side channel attack in the source. Here, we demonstrate a practical implementation of SCS-QKD, achieving a secure key rate of $6.60$ kbps through a 50.5 km fibre and a maximum distribution distance of 101.1 km while accounting for finite-size effects. Our experiment also represents an approximate forty-times improvement over the previous experiment.

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