JOURNAL OF MECHANICS OF CONTINUA AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION USING SUPER DENSE CODING

Tamal Deb, Jyotsna Kumar Mandal, Deeptanu Sen

Published Aug 15, 2025• 2 citations

Abstract

Built based on the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) enables secure communication for distant parties. Entanglement-based protocols are a type of QKD protocol that uses the phenomenon of entanglement for detecting eavesdroppers between two communicating parties. In this paper, a novel QKD protocol is devised that uses the concept of superdense coding and padding bits to share the one-time pad, i.e., the key. The super dense coding is achieved by sharing a pre-existing entangled pair of qubits by leveraging the beautiful property of entanglement. The communicating parties can share a one-time pad using this protocol securely. This paper will demonstrate this phenomenon using the proposed protocol by showing the experimental results which has been surfaced with IBM Qiskit simulator, and the simulation establishes the applicability of the protocol and shows its effectiveness in detecting eavesdropping attempts while being simple to implement.

DOI: 10.26782/jmcms.2025.08.00007

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