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Improved composable key rates for CV-QKD

Quantum Physics 2025-11-27 v5 Applied Physics Computational Physics

Abstract

Modern security proofs of quantum key distribution (QKD) must take finite-size effects and composable aspects into consideration. This is also the case for continuous-variable (CV) protocols which are based on the transmission and detection of bosonic coherent states. In this paper, we refine and advance the previous theory in this area providing a more rigorous formulation for the composable key rate of a generic CV-QKD protocol. Thanks to these theoretical refinements, our general formulas allow us to prove more optimistic key rates with respect to previous literature.

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@article{arxiv.2301.10270,
  title  = {Improved composable key rates for CV-QKD},
  author = {Stefano Pirandola and Panagiotis Papanastasiou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.10270},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Discussion added to explain practical QKD implementation in a session of multiple blocks (new Section IV and Figure 3). Minor typos corrected. Improves theory from arXiv:2203.00706, arXiv:2010.04168, and arXiv:1912.11418

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