Security of six-state quantum key distribution protocol with threshold detectors

Details Security of six-state quantum key distribution protocol with threshold detectors Security of six-state quantum key distribution protocol with threshold detectors

2010-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/1008.4663v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 2 figures

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We prove the unconditional security of the six-state protocol with threshold detectors and one-way classical communication. Unlike the four-state protocol (BB84), it has been proven that the squash operator for the six-state does not exist, i.e., the statistics of the measurements cannot be obtained via measurement on qubits. We propose a technique to determine which photon number states are important, and we consider a fictitious measurement on a qubit, which is defined through the squash operator of BB84, for the better estimation of Eve's information. As a result, we prove that the bit error rate threshold for the six-state protocol (12.611%) remains almost the same as the one of the qubit-based six-state protocol (12.619%). This clearly demonstrates the robustness of the six-state protocol against the use of the practical devices.

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