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arXiv:1606.01110 · Optics Express

Detector-decoy high-dimensional quantum key distribution

Haize Bao, Wansu Bao, Yang Wang, Ruike Chen, Chun Zhou, Musheng Jiang, Hongwei Li

Published Sep 15, 2016• 8 citations
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Abstract

The decoy-state high-dimensional quantum key distribution provides a practical secure way to share more private information with high photon-information efficiency. In this paper, based on detector-decoy method, we propose a detector-decoy high-dimensional quantum key distribution protocol. Employing threshold detectors and a variable attenuator, we can promise the security under Gsussian collective attacks with much simpler operations in practical implementation. By numerical evaluation, we show that without varying the source intensity, our protocol performs much better than one-decoy-state protocol and as well as the two-decoy-state protocol in the infinite-size regime. In the finite-size regime, our protocol can achieve better results. Specially, when the detector efficiency is lower, the advantage of the detector-decoy method becomes more prominent.

DOI
10.1364/oe.24.022159

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