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The discrete modulation can make up for the shortage of transmission distance in measurement-device-independent continuous-variable quantum key distribution (MDI-CVQKD) that has an unique advantage against all side-channel attacks but also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Wei Ye , Ying Guo , Yun Mao , Hai Zhong , Liyun Hu

In this work we focus on evaluating the effectiveness of two non-Gaussian operations, photon subtraction (PS) and quantum scissors (QS) in terms of Continuous Variable (CV)-Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) over lossy channels. Each operation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Eduardo Villaseñor , Robert Malaney

Non-Gaussian modulation can improve the performance of continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD). For Gaussian modulated coherent state CV-QKD, photon subtraction can realize non-Gaussian modulation, which can be equivalently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Xiangyu Wang , Menghao Xu , Yin Zhao , Ziyang Chen , Song Yu , Hong Guo

We introduce a robust scheme for long-distance continuous-variable (CV) measurement-device-independent (MDI) quantum key distribution (QKD) in which we employ post-selection between distant parties communicating through the medium of an…

We present a practical method that can make quantum key distribution (QKD), for the first time, both ultra-long-distance and immune to all attacks in the detection system. This method is an important extension of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-22 Feihu Xu , Bing Qi , Zhongfa Liao , Hoi-Kwong Lo

We show the utility of photon added-then-subtracted (PAS) state and two photon replaced (2PR) state when used in continuous variables measurement device independent quantum key distribution (CV-MDI-QKD) protocol. We report that single and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Farsad Ahmad , Aeysha Khalique

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) removes all detector side channels and enables secure QKD with an untrusted relay. It is suitable for building a star-type quantum access network, where the complicated and…

Continuous-variable measurement-independent-device quantum key distribution (CV-MDI-QKD) can offer high secure key rate at metropolitan distance and remove all side channel loopholes of detection as well. However, there is no complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 Hua-Lei Yin , Wei Zhu , Yao Fu

We propose a protocol to perform long-range distribution of near-maximally entangled multiphoton states, allowing versatile applications such as quantum key distribution (QKD) and quantum metrology which can provide alternatives to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Monika E. Mycroft , Thomas McDermott , Adam Buraczewski , Magdalena Stobińska

The measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) can be immune to all detector side-channel attacks. Moreover, it can be easily implemented combining with the matured decoy-state methods under current technology. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Yi-Peng Chen , Jing-Yang Liu , Mingshuo Sun , Xing-Xu Zhou , Chun-Hui Zhang , Jian Li , Qin Wang

In this work we present a quantum key distribution protocol using continuous-variable non-Gaussian states, homodyne detection and post-selection. The employed signal states are the Photon Added then Subtracted Coherent States (PASCS) in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 L. F. M. Borelli , L. S. Aguiar , J. A. Roversi , A. Vidiella-Barranco

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD) is considered to be an alternative to classical cryptography for secure communication. However, its transmission distance is restricted to metropolitan areas, given that it is affected by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Jian Zhou , Duan Huang , Ying Guo

It is known that quantum scissors, as non-deterministic amplifiers, can enhance the performance of Gaussian-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) in noisy and long-distance regimes of operation. Here, we extend…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Masoud Ghalaii , Carlo Ottaviani , Rupesh Kumar , Stefano Pirandola , Mohsen Razavi

Non-Gaussian operations have been studied intensively in recent years due to their ability to enhance the entanglement of quantum states. However, most previous studies on such operations are carried out in a single-mode setting, even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Mingjian He , Robert Malaney , Jonathan Green

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocols enable two distant parties to communicate with information-theoretically proven secrecy. However, these protocols are generally vulnerable to potential mismatches between the physical modeling and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Corentin Lanore , Xavier Valcarce , Jean Etesse , Anthony Martin , Jean-Daniel Bancal

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) provides us a powerful approach to resist all attacks at detection side. Besides the unconditional security, people also seek for high key generation rate, but MDI-QKD has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Yu-Fei Yan , Lan Zhou , Wei Zhong , Yu-Bo Sheng

We assess the overall performance of our quantum key distribution (QKD) system implementing the measurement-device-independent (MDI) protocol using components with varying capabilities such as different single photon detectors and qubit…

Addition of single photons to two-mode-squeezed-vacuum states has the effect of distilling quantum entanglement, and, when deployed in quantum key distribution, should lead also to an increase in the secret key rate. However, the extraction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Hao Jeng , Ping Koy Lam , Syed M. Assad

Continuous variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD), utilizes continuous variables encoding such as the quadra-ture components of the quantized electromagnetic field and coherent detection decoding, offering good compatibility with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Pu Wang , Yan Tian , Yongmin Li

We present a rigorous security analysis of Continuous-Variable Measurement-Device Independent Quantum Key Distribution (CV MDI QKD) in a finite size scenario. The security proof is obtained in two steps: by first assessing the security…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Cosmo Lupo , Carlo Ottaviani , Panagiotis Papanastasiou , Stefano Pirandola