Experimental Demonstration of Twin-Field Quantum Digital Signatures over 504 km

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15174v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:09:16 GMT
• Title: Experimental Demonstration of Twin-Field Quantum Digital Signatures over 504 km
• Abstract summary: We report the first experimental demonstration of twin-field quantum digital signatures (TF-QDS) using a GHz system.<n>We achieve a maximum transmission distance of 504 km fiber spools for both single-bit and multi-bit schemes.<n>Our work provides a new record for long-distance and high-rate QDS, representing a significant step in the development of QDS.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Digital signatures are one of the security cornerstones of the current information age. Compared with classical digital signatures based on computational complexity, quantum digital signatures (QDS) theoretically guarantee data integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiation by quantum mechanics, showing great potential for development in cryptography and thus attracting widespread attention. However, the performance of existing QDS systems are still limited in rate and distance. Here we report the first experimental demonstration of twin-field QDS (TF-QDS) using a GHz system. We achieve a maximum transmission distance of 504 km fiber spools for both single-bit and multi-bit schemes, surpassing all existing state-of-the-art QDS experiments more than 200 km. Furthermore, by combining the one-time universal hash method, we achieve a maximum signature rate of 21.1 times per second for a 1 Mbit file over fiber distances up to 302 km. In this work, the signature rates of both single-bit scheme and multi-bit scheme are more than two orders of magnitude higher than that of previous works at similar distance. Our work provides a new record for long-distance and high-rate QDS, representing a significant step in the development of QDS.

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