High-Rate Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution Based on Probabilistically Shaped 64 and 256-QAM

François Roumestan; Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi; Jérémie Renaudier; Luis Trigo Vidarte; Eleni Diamanti; Philippe Grangier

High-Rate Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution Based on Probabilistically Shaped 64 and 256-QAM

Quantum Physics 2021-11-25 v1

Authors: François Roumestan , Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi , Jérémie Renaudier , Luis Trigo Vidarte , Eleni Diamanti , Philippe Grangier

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Abstract

We designed a CV-QKD system with off-the-shelf components and established the feasibility of distributing 67.6 and 66.8 Mb/s secret key rates on average over a 9.5 km SMF link, using respectively probabilistically shaped 64 and 256 QAM, and relying on a novel analytical security proof.

Keywords

quantum key distribution

Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.12356,
  title  = {High-Rate Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution Based on Probabilistically Shaped 64 and 256-QAM},
  author = {François Roumestan and Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi and Jérémie Renaudier and Luis Trigo Vidarte and Eleni Diamanti and Philippe Grangier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.12356},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

This work has been presented at the conference ECOC 2021 Bordeaux on the 09/16/2021, and published in the Proceedings of this conference

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