Detecting quantum correlations for quantum key distribution

Marcos Curty; Otfried Guehne; Maciej Lewenstein; Norbert Luetkenhaus

doi:10.1117/12.575411

11 January 2005 Detecting quantum correlations for quantum key distribution

Marcos Curty, Otfried Guehne, Maciej Lewenstein, Norbert Luetkenhaus

Proceedings Volume 5631, Quantum Optics and Applications in Computing and Communications II; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.575411
Event: Photonics Asia, 2004, Beijing, China

Abstract

Practical quantum key distribution can be understood as a two-step procedure: in a first step two parties exchange quantum mechanical signals and perform measurements on them, in a second step auxiliary classical communication protocols are performed over an authenticated public channel to transform the data of the first step into an information-theoretic secure key. In this article we address the question of necessary conditions on the correlated (classical) data of the first step such that there can be a successful second step at all. As it turns out, a necessary condition is that these data, together with the knowledge about the physical set-up of sender and receiver, allow to establish a proof of effective entanglement between the two parties. We then demonstrate methods to systematically search for such a proof in basic settings, involving the 2-, 4-, and 6-state protocols.

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Marcos Curty, Otfried Guehne, Maciej Lewenstein, and Norbert Luetkenhaus "Detecting quantum correlations for quantum key distribution", Proc. SPIE 5631, Quantum Optics and Applications in Computing and Communications II, (11 January 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.575411

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