The robustness of reference-frame-independent measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(RFIMDI-QKD)against detection system vulnerabilities and its tolerance to reference frame drifts make it an ideal ch...The robustness of reference-frame-independent measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(RFIMDI-QKD)against detection system vulnerabilities and its tolerance to reference frame drifts make it an ideal choice for hybrid channels.However,the impact of atmospheric turbulence on transmittance fluctuations remains a significant challenge for enhancing the performance of RFI-MDI-QKD.In this paper,we apply prefixed-threshold real-time selection and advantage distillation techniques to RFI-MDI-QKD in a hybrid channels scenario.Then,we analytically derive formulas for secret key rate in hybrid channels.Simulation results show that our modified scheme has apparent advances in both maximum tolerant loss and secure key rate compared to the fiber-only channel.Specifically,the result demonstrates that the maximum transmission distance can be improved by 15 km and 28 km when N=10^(12)and 10^(11).Our work not only provides a more robust key distribution protocol but also establishes a solid theoretical foundation for enhancing the performance of RFI-MDI-QKD in hybrid channels.展开更多
In principle,the asynchronous measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(AMDI-QKD)can surpass the key rate capacity without phase tracking and phase locking.However,practical imperfections in sources or d...In principle,the asynchronous measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(AMDI-QKD)can surpass the key rate capacity without phase tracking and phase locking.However,practical imperfections in sources or detections would dramatically depress its performance.Here,we present an improved model on AMDI-QKD to reduce the influence of these imperfections,including intensity fluctuation,the afterpulse effect,and the dead time of detectors.Furthermore,we carry out corresponding numerical simulations.Simulation results show that,by implementing our present work,it can have more than 100 km longer secure transmission distance and one order of magnitude enhancement in the key generation rate after 320 km compared with the standard method.Moreover,our model can still break the Pirandola–Laurenza–Ottaviani–Banchi(PLOB)bound even under realistic experimental conditions.展开更多
In this paper, we propose a measurement-device-independent quantum-key-distribution（MDI-QKD） protocol using orbital angular momentum（OAM） in free space links, named the OAM-MDI-QKD protocol. In the proposed protoc...In this paper, we propose a measurement-device-independent quantum-key-distribution（MDI-QKD） protocol using orbital angular momentum（OAM） in free space links, named the OAM-MDI-QKD protocol. In the proposed protocol,the OAM states of photons, instead of polarization states, are used as the information carriers to avoid the reference frame alignment, the decoy-state is adopted to overcome the security loophole caused by the weak coherent pulse source, and the high efficient OAM-sorter is adopted as the measurement tool for Charlie to obtain the output OAM state. Here, Charlie may be an untrusted third party. The results show that the authorized users, Alice and Bob, could distill a secret key with Charlie＇s successful measurements, and the key generation performance is slightly better than that of the polarization-based MDI-QKD protocol in the two-dimensional OAM cases. Simultaneously, Alice and Bob can reduce the number of flipping the bits in the secure key distillation. It is indicated that a higher key generation rate performance could be obtained by a high dimensional OAM-MDI-QKD protocol because of the unlimited degree of freedom on OAM states. Moreover,the results show that the key generation rate and the transmission distance will decrease as the growth of the strength of atmospheric turbulence（AT） and the link attenuation. In addition, the decoy states used in the proposed protocol can get a considerable good performance without the need for an ideal source.展开更多
Quantum secret sharing(QSS) is a typical multi-party quantum communication mode, in which the key sender splits a key into several parts and the participants can obtain the key by cooperation. Measurement-device-indep...Quantum secret sharing(QSS) is a typical multi-party quantum communication mode, in which the key sender splits a key into several parts and the participants can obtain the key by cooperation. Measurement-device-independent quantum secret sharing(MDI-QSS) is immune to all possible attacks from measurement devices and can greatly enhance QSS's security in practical applications. However, previous MDI-QSS's key generation rate is relatively low. Here, we adopt the polarization-spatial-mode hyper-encoding technology in the MDI-QSS, which can increase single photon's channel capacity. Meanwhile, we use the cross-Kerr nonlinearity to realize the complete hyper-entangled Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state analysis. Both above factors can increase MDI-QSS's key generation rate by about 10^(3). The proposed hyper-encoded MDI-QSS protocol may be useful for future multiparity quantum communication applications.展开更多
The one-step quantum secure direct communication(QSDC)(Sci.Bull.67,367(2022))can effectively simplify QSDC’s operation and reduce message loss.For enhancing its security under practical experimental condition,we prop...The one-step quantum secure direct communication(QSDC)(Sci.Bull.67,367(2022))can effectively simplify QSDC’s operation and reduce message loss.For enhancing its security under practical experimental condition,we propose two measurement-device-independent(MDI)one-step QSDC protocols,which can resist all possible attacks from imperfect measurement devices.In both protocols,the communication parties prepare identical polarization-spatial-mode two-photon hyperentangled states and construct the hyperentanglement channel by hyperentanglement swapping.The first MDI one-step QSDC protocol adopts the nonlinear-optical complete hyperentanglement Bell state measurement(HBSM)to construct the hyperentanglement channel,while the second protocol adopts the linear-optical partial HBSM.Then,the parties encode the photons in the polarization degree of freedom and send them to the third party for the hyperentanglementassisted complete polarization Bell state measurement.Both protocols are unconditionally secure in theory.The simulation results show the MDI one-step QSDC protocol with complete HBSM attains the maximal communication distance of about354 km.Our MDI one-step QSDC protocols may have potential applications in the future quantum secure communication field.展开更多
Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(MDI-QKD) offers a practical way to realize a startype quantum network. Previous experiments on MDI-QKD networks can only support the point-to-point communication...Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(MDI-QKD) offers a practical way to realize a startype quantum network. Previous experiments on MDI-QKD networks can only support the point-to-point communication. We experimentally demonstrate a plug-and-play MDI-QKD network which can support the pointto-multipoint communication among three users. Benefiting from the plug-and-play MDI-QKD architecture,the whole network is automatically stabilized in spectrum, polarization, arrival time, and phase reference. The users only need the encoding devices, which means that the hardware requirements are greatly reduced. Our experiment shows that it is feasible to establish a point-to-multipoint MDI-QKD network.展开更多
Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution （MDI-QKD） can be immune to all detector side- channel attacks and guarantee the information-theoretical security even with uncharacterized single photon detect...Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution （MDI-QKD） can be immune to all detector side- channel attacks and guarantee the information-theoretical security even with uncharacterized single photon detectors. MDI-QKD has been demonstrated in both laboratories and field-tests by using attenuated lasers combined with the decoy-state technique. However, it is a critical assumption that the sources used by legitimate participants are trusted in MDI-QKD. Hence, it is possible that a potential security risk exists. Here we propose a new scheme of polarization-encoding-based MDI-QKD with a single untrusted source, by which the complexity of the synchronization system can be reduced and the success rate of the Bell-state measurement can be improved. Meanwhile, the decoy-state method is employed to avoid the security issues introduced by a non-ideal single photon source. We also derive a security analysis of the proposed system. In addition, it seems to be a promising candidate for the implementation for QKD network in the near future.展开更多
Reference-frame-independent measurement-device-independent QKD(RFI-MDI-QKD), immune to both the slow unknown drift of reference frames and detector side channel attacks, can generate information-theoretic secure keys....Reference-frame-independent measurement-device-independent QKD(RFI-MDI-QKD), immune to both the slow unknown drift of reference frames and detector side channel attacks, can generate information-theoretic secure keys. Despite its natural resistance to the slow drift of reference frames, the performance of practical RFI-MDI-QKD systems descends with the increasing drift of reference frames. In this paper, we demonstrate the worst relative rotation of reference frames for practical RFI-MDI-QKD systems, and investigate their performance against the worst-case scenario,both of which are unclear to date. Simulation results show that, practical RFI-MDI-QKD systems can achieve quite good performance even against the worst-case scenario, which clearly demonstrates that it is possible to implement practical MDI-QKD systems with freely drifting reference frames.展开更多
Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution （MDI-QKD） eliminates all loopholes on detection. 3 loss in the final key for the Previous experiments of time-bin phase-encoding MDI-QKD allow a factor of inc...Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution （MDI-QKD） eliminates all loopholes on detection. 3 loss in the final key for the Previous experiments of time-bin phase-encoding MDI-QKD allow a factor of incapability of identifying two successive detection events by a single photon detector. Here we propose a new scheme to realize the time-bin phase-encoding MDI-QKD. The polarization states are used to generate the time bins and the phase-encoding states. The factor of loss in the final key is eliminated by using four single photon detectors at the measurement site. We show the feasibility of our scheme with a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration. The phase reference frame is rotated extremely slowly with only passive stabilization measures. The quantum bit error rate can reach 0.8% in the Z-basis and 26.2% in the X-basis.展开更多
The effects of weather conditions are ubiquitous in practical wireless quantum communication links.Here in this work,the performances of atmospheric continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distr...The effects of weather conditions are ubiquitous in practical wireless quantum communication links.Here in this work,the performances of atmospheric continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(CV-MDI-QKD)under diverse weather conditions are analyzed quantitatively.According to the Mie scattering theory and atmospheric CV-MDI-QKD model,we numerically simulate the relationship between performance of CV-MDI-QKD and the rainy and foggy conditions,aiming to get close to the actual combat environment in the future.The results show that both rain and fog will degrade the performance of the CV-MDI-QKD protocol.Under the rainy condition,the larger the raindrop diameter,the more obvious the extinction effect is and the lower the secret key rate accordingly.In addition,we find that the secret key rate decreases with the increase of spot deflection distance and the fluctuation of deflection.Under the foggy condition,the results illustrate that the transmittance decreases with the increase of droplet radius or deflection distance,which eventually yields the decrease in the secret key rate.Besides,in both weather conditions,the increase of transmission distance also leads the secret key rate to deteriorate.Our work can provide a foundation for evaluating the performance evaluation and successfully implementing the atmospheric CV-MDI-QKD in the future field operation environment under different weather conditions.展开更多
We propose a discrete-modulated continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution protocol over a fiber-to-water channel.Different from optical fibers,the underwater channel has more severe o...We propose a discrete-modulated continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution protocol over a fiber-to-water channel.Different from optical fibers,the underwater channel has more severe optical attenuation because of optical absorption and scattering,which reduces the maximum communication distance.To enhance the performance of the protocol,the photon subtraction operation is implemented at the modulator side.We carry out a performance simulation in two different kinds of seawater channel,and the result shows that the scheme with photon subtraction has a longer secure communication distance under certain conditions.展开更多
Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(MDI-QKD) is immune to detector side channel attacks, which is a crucial security loophole problem in traditional QKD. In order to relax a key assumption that the...Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(MDI-QKD) is immune to detector side channel attacks, which is a crucial security loophole problem in traditional QKD. In order to relax a key assumption that the sources are trusted in MDI-QKD, an MDI-QKD protocol with an untrusted source has been proposed. For the security of MDI-QKD with an untrusted source, imperfections in the practical experiment should also be taken into account. In this paper, we analyze the effects of fluctuations of internal transmittance on the security of a decoy-state MDI-QKD protocol with an untrusted source. Our numerical results show that both the secret key rate and the maximum secure transmission distance decrease when taken fluctuations of internal transmittance into consideration. Especially, they are more sensitive when Charlie's mean photon number per pulse is smaller. Our results emphasize that the stability of correlative optical devices is important for practical implementations.展开更多
We propose a new scheme to enhance the performance of the Gussian-modulated coherent-state continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(CV-MDI-QKD)system via quantum scissors(QS)operatio...We propose a new scheme to enhance the performance of the Gussian-modulated coherent-state continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(CV-MDI-QKD)system via quantum scissors(QS)operation at Bob's side.As an non-deterministic amplifying setup,we firstly introduce the QS-enhanced CV-MDI-QKD protocol and then investigate the success probability of the QS operation in accordance with the equivalent one-way scheme.Afterwards,we investigate the effect of the QS operation on the proposed scheme and analyze the performance of the QS-enhanced CV-MDI-QKD system under the extreme asymmetric circumstance.Simulation results show that the QS operation can indeed improve the performance of the CV-MDI-QKD system considerably.QS-enhanced CV-MDI-QKD protocol outperforms the original CV-MDI-QKD protocol in both the maximum transmission distance and the secret key rate.Moreover,the better the performance of QS operation,the more significant the improvement of performance of the system.展开更多
Measurement-device-independent quantum cryptographic conferencing(MDI-QCC) protocol puts MDI quantum key distribution(MDI-QKD) forwards to multi-party applications, and suggests a significant framework for practical m...Measurement-device-independent quantum cryptographic conferencing(MDI-QCC) protocol puts MDI quantum key distribution(MDI-QKD) forwards to multi-party applications, and suggests a significant framework for practical multi-party quantum communication. In order to mitigate the experimental complexity of MDI-QCC and remove the key assumption(the sources are trusted) in MDI-QCC, we extend the framework of MDI-QKD with an untrusted source to MDI-QCC and give the rigorous security analysis of MDI-QCC with an untrusted source. What is more, in the security analysis we clearly provide a rigorous analytical method for parameters' estimation, which with simple modifications can be applied to not only MDI-QKD with an untrusted source but also arbitrary multi-party communication protocol with an untrusted source. The simulation results show that at reasonable distances the asymptotic key rates for the two cases(with trusted and untrusted sources) almost overlap, which indicates the feasibility of our protocol.展开更多
Statistical fluctuations are unavoidable in realistic quantum key distribution (QKD) due to finite-size effect. Based on the four-intensity proposal on measurement-device-independent QKD (MDI-QKD) in [Phys. Rev. A93 (...Statistical fluctuations are unavoidable in realistic quantum key distribution (QKD) due to finite-size effect. Based on the four-intensity proposal on measurement-device-independent QKD (MDI-QKD) in [Phys. Rev. A93 (2016) 042324], we particularly analyze the scenario that only three intensities are used, namely a three-intensity decoy-state MDI-QKD with biased basis choice. After performing full parameter optimization method, simulations results demonstrate that this scenario can obtain distinct enhancement compared with the conventional unbiased threeintensity decoy-state method, e.g. Xu et al.’s [Phys. Rev. A 89 (2014) 052333]. Furthermore, results also show that it works more efficiently by using HSPS than using WCS at longer transmission distance.展开更多
Quantum dialogue(QD)realizes the real-time secure bidirectional quantum communication.Measurement-deviceindependent(MDI)QD can resist all possible attacks focusing on the imperfect measurement devices and enhance QD’...Quantum dialogue(QD)realizes the real-time secure bidirectional quantum communication.Measurement-deviceindependent(MDI)QD can resist all possible attacks focusing on the imperfect measurement devices and enhance QD’s practical security.However,in practical applications,any secure communication requires identity authentication as a prerequisite.In this paper,we propose an MDI QD protocol with bidirectional identity authentication.The practical communication parties can first authenticate the identity of each other simultaneously before the message exchange.In theory,our MDI QD protocol has unconditional security and the communication parties can exchange 1.5 bits of messages in each communication round with linear optical Bell state measurement.We numerically simulate the secrecy message capacity of our MDI QD protocol.Our protocol has two advantages.First,it can effectively resist the impersonation attack and enhance MDI QD’s practical security.Second,it does not require keys to assist the message exchange and has relatively high efficiency.Our protocol has application potential in the future quantum communication field.展开更多
Security in communication is vital in modern life. At present, security is realized by an encryption process in cryptography. It is unbelievable if a secure communication is achievable without encryption. In quantum c...Security in communication is vital in modern life. At present, security is realized by an encryption process in cryptography. It is unbelievable if a secure communication is achievable without encryption. In quantum cryptography, there is a unique form of quantum communication, quantum secure direct communication, where secret information is transmitted directly over a quantum channel. Quantum secure direct communication is drastically distinct from our conventional concept of secure communication, because it does not require key distribution, key storage and ciphertext transmission, and eliminates the encryption procedure completely. Hence it avoids in principle all the security loopholes associated with key and ciphertext in traditional secure communications. For practical implementation, defects always exist in real devices and it may downgrade the security. Among the various device imperfections, those with the measurement devices are the most prominent and serious ones. Here we report a measurementdevice-independent quantum secure direct communication protocol using Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pairs. This protocol eradicates the security vulnerabilities associated with the measurement device,and greatly enhances the practical security of quantum secure direct communication. In addition to the security advantage, this protocol has an extended communication distance, and a high communication capacity.展开更多
Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(MDI-QKD)provides us a powerful approach to resist all attacks at detection side.Besides the unconditional security,people also seek for high key generation rate,...Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(MDI-QKD)provides us a powerful approach to resist all attacks at detection side.Besides the unconditional security,people also seek for high key generation rate,but MDI-QKD has relatively low key generation rate.In this paper,we provide an efficient approach to increase the key generation rate of MDI-QKD by adopting multiple degrees of freedom(DOFs)of single photons to generate keys.Compared with other high-dimension MDI-QKD protocols encoding in one DOF,our protocol is more flexible,for our protocol generating keys in independent subsystems and the detection failure or error in a DOF not affecting the information encoding in other DOFs.Based on above features,our MDI-QKD protocol may have potential application in future quantum comniunication field.展开更多
The security of quantum key distribution(QKD)is severely threatened by discrepancies between realistic devices and theoretical assumptions.Recently,a significant framework called the reference technique was proposed t...The security of quantum key distribution(QKD)is severely threatened by discrepancies between realistic devices and theoretical assumptions.Recently,a significant framework called the reference technique was proposed to provide security against arbitrary source flaws under current technology such as state preparation flaws,side channels caused by mode dependencies,the Trojan horse attacks and pulse correlations.Here,we adopt the reference technique to prove security of an efficient four-phase measurement-device-independent QKD using laser pulses against potential source imperfections.We present a characterization of source flaws and connect them to experiments,together with a finite-key analysis against coherent attacks.In addition,we demonstrate the feasibility of our protocol through a proof-of-principle experimental implementation and achieve a secure key rate of 253 bps with a 20 d B channel loss.Compared with previous QKD protocols with imperfect devices,our study considerably improves both the secure key rate and the transmission distance,and shows application potential in the practical deployment of secure QKD with device imperfections.展开更多
We propose a novel scheme for measurement-device-independent(MDI)continuous-variable quantum key distribution(CVQKD)by simultaneously conducting classical communication and QKD,which is called“simultaneous MDI-CVQKD...We propose a novel scheme for measurement-device-independent(MDI)continuous-variable quantum key distribution(CVQKD)by simultaneously conducting classical communication and QKD,which is called“simultaneous MDI-CVQKD”protocol.In such protocol,each sender(Alice,Bob)can superimpose random numbers for QKD on classical information by taking advantage of the same weak coherent pulse and an untrusted third party(Charlie)decodes it by using the same coherent detectors,which could be appealing in practice due to that multiple purposes can be realized by employing only single communication system.What is more,the proposed protocol is MDI,which is immune to all possible side-channel attacks on practical detectors.Security results illustrate that the simultaneous MDI-CVQKD protocol can secure against arbitrary collective attacks.In addition,we employ phase-sensitive optical amplifiers to compensate the imperfection existing in practical detectors.With this technology,even common practical detectors can be used for detection through choosing a suitable optical amplifier gain.Furthermore,we also take the finite-size effect into consideration and show that the whole raw keys can be taken advantage of to generate the final secret key instead of sacrificing part of them for parameter estimation.Therefore,an enhanced performance of the simultaneous MDI-CVQKD protocol can be obtained in finite-size regime.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61505261,62101597,61605248,and 61675235)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2020YFA0309702)the Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province(Grant Nos.202300410534 and 202300410534)。
文摘The robustness of reference-frame-independent measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(RFIMDI-QKD)against detection system vulnerabilities and its tolerance to reference frame drifts make it an ideal choice for hybrid channels.However,the impact of atmospheric turbulence on transmittance fluctuations remains a significant challenge for enhancing the performance of RFI-MDI-QKD.In this paper,we apply prefixed-threshold real-time selection and advantage distillation techniques to RFI-MDI-QKD in a hybrid channels scenario.Then,we analytically derive formulas for secret key rate in hybrid channels.Simulation results show that our modified scheme has apparent advances in both maximum tolerant loss and secure key rate compared to the fiber-only channel.Specifically,the result demonstrates that the maximum transmission distance can be improved by 15 km and 28 km when N=10^(12)and 10^(11).Our work not only provides a more robust key distribution protocol but also establishes a solid theoretical foundation for enhancing the performance of RFI-MDI-QKD in hybrid channels.
基金Project supported by Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(Grant Nos.BE2022071 and BK20192001)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12074194,62101285,62471248,and 12104240)Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(Grant No.KYCX220954).
文摘In principle,the asynchronous measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(AMDI-QKD)can surpass the key rate capacity without phase tracking and phase locking.However,practical imperfections in sources or detections would dramatically depress its performance.Here,we present an improved model on AMDI-QKD to reduce the influence of these imperfections,including intensity fluctuation,the afterpulse effect,and the dead time of detectors.Furthermore,we carry out corresponding numerical simulations.Simulation results show that,by implementing our present work,it can have more than 100 km longer secure transmission distance and one order of magnitude enhancement in the key generation rate after 320 km compared with the standard method.Moreover,our model can still break the Pirandola–Laurenza–Ottaviani–Banchi(PLOB)bound even under realistic experimental conditions.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61271238 and 61475075)the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(Grant No.20123223110003)+7 种基金the Natural Science Research Foundation for Universities of Jiangsu Province of China(Grant No.11KJA510002)the Open Research Fund of Key Laboratory of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network TechnologyMinistry of EducationChina(Grant No.NYKL2015011)the Innovation Program of Graduate Education of Jiangsu ProvinceChina(Grant No.KYLX0810)partially supported by Qinglan Project of Jiangsu ProvinceChina
文摘In this paper, we propose a measurement-device-independent quantum-key-distribution（MDI-QKD） protocol using orbital angular momentum（OAM） in free space links, named the OAM-MDI-QKD protocol. In the proposed protocol,the OAM states of photons, instead of polarization states, are used as the information carriers to avoid the reference frame alignment, the decoy-state is adopted to overcome the security loophole caused by the weak coherent pulse source, and the high efficient OAM-sorter is adopted as the measurement tool for Charlie to obtain the output OAM state. Here, Charlie may be an untrusted third party. The results show that the authorized users, Alice and Bob, could distill a secret key with Charlie＇s successful measurements, and the key generation performance is slightly better than that of the polarization-based MDI-QKD protocol in the two-dimensional OAM cases. Simultaneously, Alice and Bob can reduce the number of flipping the bits in the secure key distillation. It is indicated that a higher key generation rate performance could be obtained by a high dimensional OAM-MDI-QKD protocol because of the unlimited degree of freedom on OAM states. Moreover,the results show that the key generation rate and the transmission distance will decrease as the growth of the strength of atmospheric turbulence（AT） and the link attenuation. In addition, the decoy states used in the proposed protocol can get a considerable good performance without the need for an ideal source.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11974189 and 12175106)。
文摘Quantum secret sharing(QSS) is a typical multi-party quantum communication mode, in which the key sender splits a key into several parts and the participants can obtain the key by cooperation. Measurement-device-independent quantum secret sharing(MDI-QSS) is immune to all possible attacks from measurement devices and can greatly enhance QSS's security in practical applications. However, previous MDI-QSS's key generation rate is relatively low. Here, we adopt the polarization-spatial-mode hyper-encoding technology in the MDI-QSS, which can increase single photon's channel capacity. Meanwhile, we use the cross-Kerr nonlinearity to realize the complete hyper-entangled Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state analysis. Both above factors can increase MDI-QSS's key generation rate by about 10^(3). The proposed hyper-encoded MDI-QSS protocol may be useful for future multiparity quantum communication applications.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11974189 and 12175106)the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China(Grant No.20KJB140001)the Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province,China(Grand No.KYCX22-0963)
文摘The one-step quantum secure direct communication(QSDC)(Sci.Bull.67,367(2022))can effectively simplify QSDC’s operation and reduce message loss.For enhancing its security under practical experimental condition,we propose two measurement-device-independent(MDI)one-step QSDC protocols,which can resist all possible attacks from imperfect measurement devices.In both protocols,the communication parties prepare identical polarization-spatial-mode two-photon hyperentangled states and construct the hyperentanglement channel by hyperentanglement swapping.The first MDI one-step QSDC protocol adopts the nonlinear-optical complete hyperentanglement Bell state measurement(HBSM)to construct the hyperentanglement channel,while the second protocol adopts the linear-optical partial HBSM.Then,the parties encode the photons in the polarization degree of freedom and send them to the third party for the hyperentanglementassisted complete polarization Bell state measurement.Both protocols are unconditionally secure in theory.The simulation results show the MDI one-step QSDC protocol with complete HBSM attains the maximal communication distance of about354 km.Our MDI one-step QSDC protocols may have potential applications in the future quantum secure communication field.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11674397 and 61671455
文摘Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(MDI-QKD) offers a practical way to realize a startype quantum network. Previous experiments on MDI-QKD networks can only support the point-to-point communication. We experimentally demonstrate a plug-and-play MDI-QKD network which can support the pointto-multipoint communication among three users. Benefiting from the plug-and-play MDI-QKD architecture,the whole network is automatically stabilized in spectrum, polarization, arrival time, and phase reference. The users only need the encoding devices, which means that the hardware requirements are greatly reduced. Our experiment shows that it is feasible to establish a point-to-multipoint MDI-QKD network.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 61372076 and 61301171the 111 Project under Grant No B08038
文摘Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution （MDI-QKD） can be immune to all detector side- channel attacks and guarantee the information-theoretical security even with uncharacterized single photon detectors. MDI-QKD has been demonstrated in both laboratories and field-tests by using attenuated lasers combined with the decoy-state technique. However, it is a critical assumption that the sources used by legitimate participants are trusted in MDI-QKD. Hence, it is possible that a potential security risk exists. Here we propose a new scheme of polarization-encoding-based MDI-QKD with a single untrusted source, by which the complexity of the synchronization system can be reduced and the success rate of the Bell-state measurement can be improved. Meanwhile, the decoy-state method is employed to avoid the security issues introduced by a non-ideal single photon source. We also derive a security analysis of the proposed system. In addition, it seems to be a promising candidate for the implementation for QKD network in the near future.
基金Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant Nos.2018YFA0306400 and 2017YFA0304100the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.61475197,61590932,11774180,and 61705110+3 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions under Grant Nos.15KJA120002 and 17KJB140016the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant No.BK20170902the Outstanding Youth Project of Jiangsu under Grant No.BK20150039the Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province under Grant No.KYCX18 0906
文摘Reference-frame-independent measurement-device-independent QKD(RFI-MDI-QKD), immune to both the slow unknown drift of reference frames and detector side channel attacks, can generate information-theoretic secure keys. Despite its natural resistance to the slow drift of reference frames, the performance of practical RFI-MDI-QKD systems descends with the increasing drift of reference frames. In this paper, we demonstrate the worst relative rotation of reference frames for practical RFI-MDI-QKD systems, and investigate their performance against the worst-case scenario,both of which are unclear to date. Simulation results show that, practical RFI-MDI-QKD systems can achieve quite good performance even against the worst-case scenario, which clearly demonstrates that it is possible to implement practical MDI-QKD systems with freely drifting reference frames.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11304391,11674397 and 61671455the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China
文摘Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution （MDI-QKD） eliminates all loopholes on detection. 3 loss in the final key for the Previous experiments of time-bin phase-encoding MDI-QKD allow a factor of incapability of identifying two successive detection events by a single photon detector. Here we propose a new scheme to realize the time-bin phase-encoding MDI-QKD. The polarization states are used to generate the time bins and the phase-encoding states. The factor of loss in the final key is eliminated by using four single photon detectors at the measurement site. We show the feasibility of our scheme with a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration. The phase reference frame is rotated extremely slowly with only passive stabilization measures. The quantum bit error rate can reach 0.8% in the Z-basis and 26.2% in the X-basis.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61505261).
文摘The effects of weather conditions are ubiquitous in practical wireless quantum communication links.Here in this work,the performances of atmospheric continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(CV-MDI-QKD)under diverse weather conditions are analyzed quantitatively.According to the Mie scattering theory and atmospheric CV-MDI-QKD model,we numerically simulate the relationship between performance of CV-MDI-QKD and the rainy and foggy conditions,aiming to get close to the actual combat environment in the future.The results show that both rain and fog will degrade the performance of the CV-MDI-QKD protocol.Under the rainy condition,the larger the raindrop diameter,the more obvious the extinction effect is and the lower the secret key rate accordingly.In addition,we find that the secret key rate decreases with the increase of spot deflection distance and the fluctuation of deflection.Under the foggy condition,the results illustrate that the transmittance decreases with the increase of droplet radius or deflection distance,which eventually yields the decrease in the secret key rate.Besides,in both weather conditions,the increase of transmission distance also leads the secret key rate to deteriorate.Our work can provide a foundation for evaluating the performance evaluation and successfully implementing the atmospheric CV-MDI-QKD in the future field operation environment under different weather conditions.
文摘We propose a discrete-modulated continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution protocol over a fiber-to-water channel.Different from optical fibers,the underwater channel has more severe optical attenuation because of optical absorption and scattering,which reduces the maximum communication distance.To enhance the performance of the protocol,the photon subtraction operation is implemented at the modulator side.We carry out a performance simulation in two different kinds of seawater channel,and the result shows that the scheme with photon subtraction has a longer secure communication distance under certain conditions.
基金Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No.2013CB338002the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.61505261,61675235,61605248,11304397
文摘Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(MDI-QKD) is immune to detector side channel attacks, which is a crucial security loophole problem in traditional QKD. In order to relax a key assumption that the sources are trusted in MDI-QKD, an MDI-QKD protocol with an untrusted source has been proposed. For the security of MDI-QKD with an untrusted source, imperfections in the practical experiment should also be taken into account. In this paper, we analyze the effects of fluctuations of internal transmittance on the security of a decoy-state MDI-QKD protocol with an untrusted source. Our numerical results show that both the secret key rate and the maximum secure transmission distance decrease when taken fluctuations of internal transmittance into consideration. Especially, they are more sensitive when Charlie's mean photon number per pulse is smaller. Our results emphasize that the stability of correlative optical devices is important for practical implementations.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62001383)the Scientific Research Plan Project of Shaanxi Education Department(Natural Science Special Project)(Grant No.19JK0847).
文摘We propose a new scheme to enhance the performance of the Gussian-modulated coherent-state continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(CV-MDI-QKD)system via quantum scissors(QS)operation at Bob's side.As an non-deterministic amplifying setup,we firstly introduce the QS-enhanced CV-MDI-QKD protocol and then investigate the success probability of the QS operation in accordance with the equivalent one-way scheme.Afterwards,we investigate the effect of the QS operation on the proposed scheme and analyze the performance of the QS-enhanced CV-MDI-QKD system under the extreme asymmetric circumstance.Simulation results show that the QS operation can indeed improve the performance of the CV-MDI-QKD system considerably.QS-enhanced CV-MDI-QKD protocol outperforms the original CV-MDI-QKD protocol in both the maximum transmission distance and the secret key rate.Moreover,the better the performance of QS operation,the more significant the improvement of performance of the system.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2013CB338002)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11304397 and 61505261)
文摘Measurement-device-independent quantum cryptographic conferencing(MDI-QCC) protocol puts MDI quantum key distribution(MDI-QKD) forwards to multi-party applications, and suggests a significant framework for practical multi-party quantum communication. In order to mitigate the experimental complexity of MDI-QCC and remove the key assumption(the sources are trusted) in MDI-QCC, we extend the framework of MDI-QKD with an untrusted source to MDI-QCC and give the rigorous security analysis of MDI-QCC with an untrusted source. What is more, in the security analysis we clearly provide a rigorous analytical method for parameters' estimation, which with simple modifications can be applied to not only MDI-QKD with an untrusted source but also arbitrary multi-party communication protocol with an untrusted source. The simulation results show that at reasonable distances the asymptotic key rates for the two cases(with trusted and untrusted sources) almost overlap, which indicates the feasibility of our protocol.
基金Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant Nos.2018YFA0306400,2017YFA0304100the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants Nos.61475197,61590932,11774180,61705110+3 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions under Grant Nos.15KJA120002,17KJB140016the Outstanding Youth Project of Jiangsu Province through Grant No.BK20150039the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant No.BK20170902the Postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province
文摘Statistical fluctuations are unavoidable in realistic quantum key distribution (QKD) due to finite-size effect. Based on the four-intensity proposal on measurement-device-independent QKD (MDI-QKD) in [Phys. Rev. A93 (2016) 042324], we particularly analyze the scenario that only three intensities are used, namely a three-intensity decoy-state MDI-QKD with biased basis choice. After performing full parameter optimization method, simulations results demonstrate that this scenario can obtain distinct enhancement compared with the conventional unbiased threeintensity decoy-state method, e.g. Xu et al.’s [Phys. Rev. A 89 (2014) 052333]. Furthermore, results also show that it works more efficiently by using HSPS than using WCS at longer transmission distance.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12175106 and 92365110)the Postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province,China(Grant No.KYCX23-0987).
文摘Quantum dialogue(QD)realizes the real-time secure bidirectional quantum communication.Measurement-deviceindependent(MDI)QD can resist all possible attacks focusing on the imperfect measurement devices and enhance QD’s practical security.However,in practical applications,any secure communication requires identity authentication as a prerequisite.In this paper,we propose an MDI QD protocol with bidirectional identity authentication.The practical communication parties can first authenticate the identity of each other simultaneously before the message exchange.In theory,our MDI QD protocol has unconditional security and the communication parties can exchange 1.5 bits of messages in each communication round with linear optical Bell state measurement.We numerically simulate the secrecy message capacity of our MDI QD protocol.Our protocol has two advantages.First,it can effectively resist the impersonation attack and enhance MDI QD’s practical security.Second,it does not require keys to assist the message exchange and has relatively high efficiency.Our protocol has application potential in the future quantum communication field.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2017YFA0303700 and 2015CB921001)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61726801,11474168 and 11474181)the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Chip(ICFC)
文摘Security in communication is vital in modern life. At present, security is realized by an encryption process in cryptography. It is unbelievable if a secure communication is achievable without encryption. In quantum cryptography, there is a unique form of quantum communication, quantum secure direct communication, where secret information is transmitted directly over a quantum channel. Quantum secure direct communication is drastically distinct from our conventional concept of secure communication, because it does not require key distribution, key storage and ciphertext transmission, and eliminates the encryption procedure completely. Hence it avoids in principle all the security loopholes associated with key and ciphertext in traditional secure communications. For practical implementation, defects always exist in real devices and it may downgrade the security. Among the various device imperfections, those with the measurement devices are the most prominent and serious ones. Here we report a measurementdevice-independent quantum secure direct communication protocol using Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pairs. This protocol eradicates the security vulnerabilities associated with the measurement device,and greatly enhances the practical security of quantum secure direct communication. In addition to the security advantage, this protocol has an extended communication distance, and a high communication capacity.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.11974189,12005106the Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province under Grant No.SJCX19-0241a Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
文摘Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution(MDI-QKD)provides us a powerful approach to resist all attacks at detection side.Besides the unconditional security,people also seek for high key generation rate,but MDI-QKD has relatively low key generation rate.In this paper,we provide an efficient approach to increase the key generation rate of MDI-QKD by adopting multiple degrees of freedom(DOFs)of single photons to generate keys.Compared with other high-dimension MDI-QKD protocols encoding in one DOF,our protocol is more flexible,for our protocol generating keys in independent subsystems and the detection failure or error in a DOF not affecting the information encoding in other DOFs.Based on above features,our MDI-QKD protocol may have potential application in future quantum comniunication field.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20211145)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(020414380182)+1 种基金the Key Research and Development Program of Nanjing Jiangbei New Aera(ZDYD20210101)the Program for Innovative Talents and Entrepreneurs in Jiangsu(JSSCRC2021484)。
文摘The security of quantum key distribution(QKD)is severely threatened by discrepancies between realistic devices and theoretical assumptions.Recently,a significant framework called the reference technique was proposed to provide security against arbitrary source flaws under current technology such as state preparation flaws,side channels caused by mode dependencies,the Trojan horse attacks and pulse correlations.Here,we adopt the reference technique to prove security of an efficient four-phase measurement-device-independent QKD using laser pulses against potential source imperfections.We present a characterization of source flaws and connect them to experiments,together with a finite-key analysis against coherent attacks.In addition,we demonstrate the feasibility of our protocol through a proof-of-principle experimental implementation and achieve a secure key rate of 253 bps with a 20 d B channel loss.Compared with previous QKD protocols with imperfect devices,our study considerably improves both the secure key rate and the transmission distance,and shows application potential in the practical deployment of secure QKD with device imperfections.
文摘We propose a novel scheme for measurement-device-independent(MDI)continuous-variable quantum key distribution(CVQKD)by simultaneously conducting classical communication and QKD,which is called“simultaneous MDI-CVQKD”protocol.In such protocol,each sender(Alice,Bob)can superimpose random numbers for QKD on classical information by taking advantage of the same weak coherent pulse and an untrusted third party(Charlie)decodes it by using the same coherent detectors,which could be appealing in practice due to that multiple purposes can be realized by employing only single communication system.What is more,the proposed protocol is MDI,which is immune to all possible side-channel attacks on practical detectors.Security results illustrate that the simultaneous MDI-CVQKD protocol can secure against arbitrary collective attacks.In addition,we employ phase-sensitive optical amplifiers to compensate the imperfection existing in practical detectors.With this technology,even common practical detectors can be used for detection through choosing a suitable optical amplifier gain.Furthermore,we also take the finite-size effect into consideration and show that the whole raw keys can be taken advantage of to generate the final secret key instead of sacrificing part of them for parameter estimation.Therefore,an enhanced performance of the simultaneous MDI-CVQKD protocol can be obtained in finite-size regime.
