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The dimension reduction method enables security proofs of quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols that are originally formulated in infinite dimensions via reduction to a tractable finite-dimensional optimization. The reduction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Twesh Upadhyaya , Thomas van Himbeeck , Norbert Lütkenhaus

High-dimensional quantum key distribution (QKD) offers secure communication, with secure key rates that surpass those achievable by QKD protocols utilizing two-dimensional encoding. However, existing high-dimensional QKD protocols require…

High-dimensional (HD) entanglement promises both enhanced key rates and overcoming obstacles faced by modern-day quantum communication. However, modern convex optimization-based security arguments are limited by computational constraints;…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Florian Kanitschar , Marcus Huber

This paper investigates a reconciliation method in order to establish an errorless secret key in a QKD protocol. Classical key distribution protocols are no longer unconditionally secure because computational complexity of mathematical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Nedra Benletaief , Houria Rezig , Ammar Bouallegue

This paper presents an easy-to-use open-source software library for continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) systems. The library, written in C++, simplifies the crucial task of information reconciliation, ensuring that both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Erdem Eray Cil , Laurent Schmalen

This paper investigates a new information reconciliation method for quantum key distribution in the case where two parties exchange key in the presence of a malevolent eavesdropper. We have observed that reconciliation is a special case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Nedra Benletaief , Houria Rezig , Ammar Bouallegue

Information Reconciliation is a mechanism that allows to weed out the discrepancies between two correlated variables. It is an essential component in every key agreement protocol where the key has to be transmitted through a noisy channel.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-01 David Elkouss , Jesus Martinez-Mateo , Daniel Lancho , Vicente Martin

Post-processing is a significant step in quantum key distribution(QKD), which is used for correcting the quantum-channel noise errors and distilling identical corrected keys between two distant legitimate parties. Efficient error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-09 Chaohui Gao , Dong Jiang , Liangliang Lu , Yu Guo , Lijun Chen

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) schemes are key exchange protocols based on the physical properties of quantum channels. They avoid the computational-hardness assumptions that underlie the security of classical key exchange.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Arpan Akash Ray , Boris Skoric

The recently proposed phase-matching quantum key distribution offers means to overcome the linear key rate-transmittance bound. Since the key information is encoded onto the phases of coherent states, the misalignment between the two remote…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-13 Anran Jin , Pei Zeng , Richard V. Penty , Xiongfeng Ma

New near-capacity continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) reconciliation schemes are proposed, where both the authenticated classical channel (ClC) and the quantum channel (QuC) for QKD are protected by separate forward error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Xin Liu , Chao Xu , Yasir Noori , Soon Xin Ng , Lajos Hanzo

Quantum key distribution (QKD) relies on quantum and classical procedures in order to achieve the growing of a secret random string -the key- known only to the two parties executing the protocol. Limited intrinsic efficiency of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-04 David Elkouss , Jesus Martinez-Mateo , Vicente Martin

Reconciliation is an essential procedure for continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD). As the most commonly used reconciliation protocol in short-distance CV-QKD, the slice error correction (SEC) allows a system to distill more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-17 Xuan Wen , Qiong Li , Haokun Mao , Xiaojun Wen , Nan Chen

A photon with a modulated wavefront can produce a quantum communication channel in a larger Hilbert space. For example, higher dimensional quantum key distribution (HD-QKD) can encode information in the transverse linear momentum (LM) or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-27 Warner A. Miller , Paul M. Alsing , Doyeol Ahn

This paper investigates the design of low-complexity error correction codes for the verification step in continuous variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD) systems. We design new coding schemes based on quasi-cyclic repeat-accumulate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Sarah J. Johnson , Vikram A. Chandrasetty , Andrew M. Lance

We propose a schematic setup of quantum key distribution (QKD) with an improved secret key rate based on high-dimensional quantum states. Two degrees-of-freedom of a single photon, orbital angular momentum modes, and multi-path modes, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Yonggi Jo , Hee Su Park , Seung-Woo Lee , Wonmin Son

Information reconciliation (IR), which corrects the errors in the sifted keys, directly determines the secure key rate and the link distance of quantum key distribution (QKD) systems. In this article, we propose an appending information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 Han Zhou , Bang-Ying Tang , Huan Chen , Hui-Cun Yu , Si-Chen Li , Wan-Rong Yu , Bo Liu

In continuous-variable quantum key distribution, information reconciliation is required to extract a shared secret key from correlated random variables obtained through the quantum channel. Reverse reconciliation (RR) is generally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Marco Origlia , Emanuele Parente , Marco Secondini

In continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD), the performance of the information reconciliation (IR) step is critical for the achievable secret key rate (SKR) and transmission distance. We show how to improve on the recently…

We introduce new quantum key distribution protocols using quantum continuous variables, that are secure against individual attacks for any transmission of the optical line between Alice and Bob. In particular, it is not required that this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Frédéric Grosshans , Philippe Grangier