Quantum memory in quantum cryptography

Details Quantum memory in quantum cryptography Quantum memory in quantum cryptography

1999-06-21

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906073v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

D.Sc. (Ph.D) Thesis; April 1997; Technion, Haifa, Israel. 107 pages, Latex. The results of chapters 2-4 (security of QKD), and

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[Shortened abstract:] This thesis investigates the importance of quantum memory in quantum cryptography, concentrating on quantum key distribution schemes. In the hands of an eavesdropper -- a quantum memory is a powerful tool, putting in question the security of quantum cryptography; Classical privacy amplification techniques, used to prove security against less powerful eavesdroppers, might not be effective when the eavesdropper can keep quantum states for a long time. In this work we suggest a possible direction for approaching this problem. We define strong attacks of this type, and show security against them, suggesting that quantum cryptography is secure. We start with a complete analysis regarding the information about a parity bit (since parity bits are used for privacy amplification). We use the results regarding the information on parity bits to prove security against very strong eavesdropping attacks, which uses quantum memories and all classical data (including error correction codes) to attack the final key directly. In the hands of the legitimate users, a quantum memory is also a useful tool. We suggest a new type of quantum key distribution scheme where quantum memories are used instead of quantum channels. This scheme is especially adequate for networks of many users. The use of quantum memory also allows reducing the error rate to improve large scale quantum cryptography, and to enable the legitimate users to work with reasonable error rate.

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