Experimental Passive Round-Robin Differential Phase-Shift Quantum Key Distribution
Experimental Passive Round-Robin Differential Phase-Shift Quantum Key Distribution
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实验被动循环差分相移量子密钥分配
DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.114.180502
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发表时间:
2015-05-06
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Pan, Jian-Wei
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作者:
Guan, Jian-Yu;Cao, Zhu;Pan, Jian-Wei
In quantum key distribution (QKD), the bit error rate is used to estimate the information leakage and hence determines the amount of privacy amplification-making the final key private by shortening the key. In general, there exists a threshold of the error rate for each scheme, above which no secure key can be generated. This threshold puts a restriction on the environment noises. For example, a widely used QKD protocol, the Bennett-Brassard protocol, cannot tolerate error rates beyond 25%. A new protocol, round-robin differential phase-shifted (RRDPS) QKD, essentially removes this restriction and can in principle tolerate more environment disturbance. Here, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a passive RRDPS QKD scheme. In particular, our 500 MHz passive RRDPS QKD system is able to generate a secure key over 50 km with a bit error rate as high as 29%. This scheme should find its applications in noisy environment conditions.