Relativistic BB84, relativistic errors, and how to correct them
Quantum Physics
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
The Bennett-Brassard cryptographic scheme (BB84) needs two bases, at least one of them linearly polarized. The problem is that linear polarization formulated in terms of helicities is not a relativistically covariant notion: State which is linearly polarized in one reference frame becomes depolarized in another one. We show that a relativistically moving receiver of information should define linear polarization with respect to projection of Pauli-Lubanski's vector in a principal null direction of the Lorentz transformation which defines the motion, and not with respect to the helicity basis. Such qubits do not depolarize.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0303077,
title = {Relativistic BB84, relativistic errors, and how to correct them},
author = {Marek Czachor and Marcin Wilczewski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0303077},
year = {2009}
}
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