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Deterministic and Efficient Quantum Cryptography Based on Bell's Theorem

Quantum Physics 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We propose a novel double-entanglement-based quantum cryptography protocol that is both efficient and deterministic. The proposal uses photon pairs with entanglement both in polarization and in time degrees of freedom; each measurement in which both of the two communicating parties register a photon can establish one and only one perfect correlation and thus deterministically create a key bit. Eavesdropping can be detected by violation of local realism. A variation of the protocol shows a higher security, similarly to the six-state protocol, under individual attacks. Our scheme allows a robust implementation under current technology.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0501171,
  title  = {Deterministic and Efficient Quantum Cryptography Based on Bell's Theorem},
  author = {Zeng-Bing Chen and Qiang Zhang and Xiao-Hui Bao and J. Schmiedmayer and Jian-Wei Pan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0501171},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure; published version with a note added