Secure Communication using Gaussian-State Quantum Illumination

Details Secure Communication using Gaussian-State Quantum Illumination Secure Communication using Gaussian-State Quantum Illumination

2009-03-18

arxiv.org/abs/0903.3150v3

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 2 figures; new version corrects several typographical errors and adds brief comments indicating that the analysis onl

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A new paradigm for secure communication, based on quantum illumination, is proposed. Alice uses spontaneous parametric down-conversion to send Bob a set of signal modes over a pure-loss channel while retaining the set of idler modes with which they are maximally entangled. Bob imposes a single information bit on the modes he receives from Alice via binary phase-shift keying. He then adds classical Gaussian noise and sends the noisy modulated modes back to Alice over the same pure-loss channel. Even though the loss and noise destroy any entanglement between the modes that Alice receives from Bob and the idler modes she has retained, she can decode Bob's bit with an error probability that can be orders of magnitude lower than what is achieved by a passive eavesdropper who receives all the photons that are lost en route from Alice to Bob and from Bob to Alice.

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