Key distillation from quantum channels using two-way communication protocols

Details Key distillation from quantum channels using two-way communication protocols Key distillation from quantum channels using two-way communication protocols

2006-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0610048v1

Phys. Rev. A 75, 012334 (2007)

Physics

Quantum Physics

21 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.75.012334

We provide a general formalism to characterize the cryptographic properties of quantum channels in the realistic scenario where the two honest parties employ prepare and measure protocols and the known two-way communication reconciliation techniques. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition to distill a secret key using this type of schemes for Pauli qubit channels and generalized Pauli channels in higher dimension. Our results can be applied to standard protocols such as BB84 or six-state, giving a critical error rate of 20% and 27.6%, respectively. We explore several possibilities to enlarge these bounds, without any improvement. These results suggest that there may exist weakly entangling channels useless for key distribution using prepare and measure schemes.

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