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Quantum key distribution overcoming practical correlated intensity fluctuations

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Publicado en:NPJ Quantum Information vol. 11, no. 1 (2025), p. 106
Autor principal: Li, Jia-Xuan
Otros Autores: Lu, Feng-Yu, Wang, Ze-Hao, Zapatero, Víctor, Curty, Marcos, Wang, Shuang, Yin, Zhen-Qiang, Chen, Wei, He, De-Yong, Guo, Guang-Can, Han, Zheng-Fu
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Nature Publishing Group
Materias:
Probability
Random variables
Probability distribution
Parameter estimation
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Resumen:Intensity correlations between neighbouring pulses open a prevalent yet often overlooked security loophole in decoy-state quantum key distribution (QKD). As a solution, we present and experimentally demonstrate an intensity-correlation-tolerant QKD protocol that mitigates the negative effect that this phenomenon has on the secret key rate according to existing security analyses. Compared to previous approaches, our method significantly enhances the robustness against correlations, notably improving both the maximum transmission distances and the achievable secret key rates across different scenarios. By relaxing constraints on correlation parameters, our protocol enables practical devices to counter intensity correlations. We experimentally demonstrate this first practical solution that directly overcomes this security vulnerability, establish the feasibility and efficacy of our proposal, taking a major step towards loophole-free and high-performance QKD.
ISSN:2056-6387
DOI:10.1038/s41534-025-01059-0
Fuente:Health & Medical Collection