基于标记配对相干态的量子密钥分配协议的统计涨落分析

为了更加全面分析测量设备无关量子密钥分配协议,对基于标记配对相干态的测量设备无关量子密钥分配协议进行了统计涨落分析。首先分析了当光源在统计涨落时,随着发送信号脉冲数的增加,误码率和密钥生成率与传输距离的关系。结果表明,增加脉冲数能增大密钥生成率和最大传输距离,降低误码率,且基于标记配对相干态的协议性能比基于指示单光子源的协议性能要好。进一步分析了光源在统计涨落时,基于标记配对相干态的测量设备无关量子密钥分配协议在非对称信道中的密钥生成率与传输距离的关系,由仿真结果得知,非对称信道时的性能比对称信道时的性能好。     

基于参量下转换光源的被动测量设备无关量子密钥分配

量子密钥分配过程中制备诱骗态信号易引入一些边信息(频率、脉冲宽度等),窃听者可利用这些信息来分辨信号态和诱骗态。因此,提出了基于参量下转换光源和被动诱骗态方案的测量设备无关量子密钥分配协议,分析了其密钥生成率、单光子计数率以及单光子误码率与安全传输距离的关系。仿真结果表明,基于参量下转换光源的被动测量设备无关量子密钥分配协议的密钥安全传输距离达到285 km,远高于基于改造后可输出两路相关信号的弱相干光源的被动测量设备无关量子密钥分配协议,十分接近基于主动诱骗态的测量设备无关量子密钥分配协议,且克服了主动诱骗态方案可能引入边信息的缺点。     

基于相干叠加态的非正交编码诱骗态量子密钥分发

非正交编码协议和诱骗态方法可以有效地抵御光子数分离攻击. 由于相干叠加态中单光子成分高达90%, 常作为单光子量子比特的替代出现, 用于量子信息过程处理和计算. 本文结合非正交编码协议和诱骗态方法提出一种新的量子密钥分发方案, 光源采用相干叠加态, 推导了单光子的密钥生成速率、计数率下限和误码率的上限, 利用Matlab 模拟了无限多诱骗态情况下和有限多诱骗态情况下密钥生成速率和传输距离的关系, 得出该方案可以提升密钥生成速率并且提高安全传输距离, 验证了该方案可以进一步提高量子密钥分发系统的性能.     

基于弱相干态光源的非正交编码被动诱骗态量子密钥分配

基于改造的弱相干态光源,提出了一种非正交编码被动诱骗态量子密钥分配方案.该方案不主动制备诱骗态,而是根据发送端探测器是否响应,将接收端的探测结果分为响应集合和未响应集合,以此分别作为信号态和诱骗态,并利用这两个集合来估计参量和生成密钥.数值仿真表明,非正交编码被动诱骗态方案的密钥生成效率和安全传输距离都优于现有的被动诱骗态方案,且性能非常接近主动无穷诱骗态方案的理论极限值;未响应集合对密钥生成的参与使方案性能免受发送端探测效率的影响,弥补了实际探测器探测效率低下的缺陷;由于不需要主动制备诱骗态,该方案实现非常简单,适用于高速量子密钥分配的场合. 关键词： 量子光学 量子密钥分配 被动诱骗态 密钥生成效率     

基于标记配对相干态和轨道角动量的量子密钥分配

针对标记配对相干态(HPCS)下量子密钥分配协议采用极化编码和相位编码带来基的依赖性问题,研究了基于HPCS和轨道角动量(OAM)的非对称信道测量设备无关的量子密钥分配协议。分析了该协议在不同距离比率下的平均光子数、误码率、密钥生成率与信道传输损耗的关系。在HPCS和OAM下,对比了对称信道和非对称信道测量设备无关的量子密钥协议的性能优劣。仿真结果表明:采用HPCS弥补了弱相干光源和标记单光子源的不足,大大减少真空脉冲并增加了单光子脉冲;随着信道传输损耗的增大,密钥生成率和安全传输距离逐渐减小,但非对称信道的性能仍优于对称信道的。     

基于预报单光子源和探测器诱骗态的循环差分相移量子密钥分发协议

提出一种基于预报单光子源和探测器诱骗态的循环差分相移量子密钥分发协议,简称HSPS-DD-RRDPSQKD协议。在详细推导协议密钥生成率的基础上,给出了相关数值仿真,并分别与基于弱相干光源和探测器诱骗态的循环差分相移量子密钥分发(WCS-DD-RRDPS-QKD)协议和诱骗态的BB84协议进行了性能比较。结果表明,随着脉冲序列长度L的增大,其密钥生成率和最远传输距离都相应减小;当脉冲序列长度L=16时,HSPS-DDRRDPS-QKD协议较WCS-DD-RRDPS-QKD协议,安全通信距离提高了约100km,密钥生成率提升了近一个数量级;当系统错误率为9.5%时,HSPS-DD-RRDPS-QKD协议的密钥生成率较诱骗态的BB84协议的提升了近两个数量级。     

预报单光子源诱骗态量子密钥产生率及数值计算

独立推导预报单光子源诱骗态量子密钥分发的密钥产生率计算公式,讨论密钥产生率和发送端探测效率的关系;进行弱相干光和预报单光子源诱骗态量子密钥分发的最优强度估计和密钥产生率数值计算.结果表明,预报单光子源诱骗态量子密钥分发的密钥产生率随着发送端探测效率的增加而增加,其安全通信距离与完美单光子源的通信距离一致;诱骗态量子密钥分发可提高安全通信距离和密钥产生率;预报单光子源由于减少了暗计数的影响,进一步提高了安全通信距离.     

基于预报单光子源的相位匹配被动诱骗态量子密钥分配

基于预报单光子源,提出了一种相位匹配被动诱骗态量子密钥分配方案。在此方案中,通信双方仅需各产生单个强度的信号。根据通信双方本地探测器的响应情况,第三方的探测结果被分为四个集合,既起到信号态和诱骗态的作用,又共同参与参数估计和密钥生成,降低了系统实现的难度并改善了方案性能。仿真结果表明:相位匹配被动诱骗态方案的最大安全传输距离可达到552 km,性能趋近于现有的相位匹配主动诱骗态方案,且无需主动产生诱骗态;在一定程度上克服了相位匹配主动诱骗态方案严重依赖探测器探测效率的缺陷,性能更为稳定;随着数据长度的下降,方案的传输性能有所下降,但数据长度即使下降至10~7,方案的最大安全传输距离依然可以达到507 km。     

一种新的预报单光子源诱骗态量子密钥分发方案

提出一种新的预报单光子源诱骗态量子密钥分发方案.在发端采用参量下变换产生纠缠光子对,其中之一用来进行预报探测,根据探测结果将另一路光脉冲分成两个集合,其中预报探测有响应的脉冲集合用作信号态,无响应的脉冲集合作为诱骗态.由于探测效率的问题,这两个集合都是有光子的,通过这两个集合的通过率和错误率估计出单光子的通过率和错误率.此方法不需要改变光强,简单可行.仿真结果表明：该方法可以达到完美单光子源的安全通信距离;与预报单光子源的量子密钥分发相比,密钥产生率有了很大的提高;和三强度预报单光子源诱骗态量子密钥分发的 关键词： 量子保密通信 量子密钥分发 诱骗态 预报单光子源     

基于指示单光子源的量子密钥分配协议

主要介绍了量子光源,尤其是指示单光子源在量子密钥分配(QKD)中的应用,提出了一种新的基于指示单光子源的不依赖于测量装置的量子密钥分配(MDI-QKD)方案。与现有的其他方案,如弱相干态方案相比,该方案具有安全性好,密钥提取率与安全传输距离都显著提高等优点。因而,该方案在未来的量子密钥分配实用化进程中具有广阔的发展前景。     

基于两种光源的诱发态量子密钥分配性能分析

单光子的衰减特性及其易受干扰的缺点限制了纯单光子量子系统的传输码率及距离.弱相干光脉冲(WCP)光源和准单光子源(HSPS)则具有更高的实用价值.本文将这两种光源和诱发态方案相结合并采用Lütkenhaus和Gottesman-Lo- Lütkenhaus-Preskill (GLLP)两种数据后处理方法进行性能分析.仿真结果表明:HSPS在传输距离上要优于WCP,对应相同传输距离时系统量子误码率(QBER)要小些,但相对密钥生成率低. 关键词： 量子密钥分配 诱发态 WCP光源 HSPS光源     

Round-Robin Differential Phase Shift with Heralded Single-Photon Source

Round-robin differential phase shift(RRDPS) is a novel quantum key distribution protocol which can bound information leakage without monitoring signal disturbance. In this work, to decrease the effect of the vacuum component in a weak coherent pulses source, we employ a practical decoy-state scheme with heralded singlephoton source for the RRDPS protocol and analyze the performance of this method. In this scheme, only two decoy states are needed and the yields of single-photon state and multi-photon states, as well as the bit error rates of each photon states, can be estimated. The final key rate of this scheme is bounded and simulated over transmission distance. The results show that the two-decoy-state method with heralded single-photon source performs better than the two-decoy-state method with weak coherent pulses.     

New protocols for non-orthogonal quantum key distribution

Combining the passive decoy-state idea with the active decoy-state idea, a non-orthogonal (SARG04) decoy-state protocol with one vacuum and two weak decoy states is introduced based on a heralded pair coherent state photon source for quantum key distribution. Two special cases of this protocol are deduced, i.e., a one-vacuum-and-one-weak-decoy-state protocol and a one-weak-decoy-state protocol. In these protocols, the sender prepares decoy states actively, which avoids the crude estimation of parameters in the SARG04 passive decoy-state method. With the passive decoy-state idea, the detection events on Bob’s side that are non-triggered on Alice’s side are not discarded, but used to estimate the fractions of single-photon and two-photon pulses, which offsets the limitation of the detector’s low efficiency and overcomes the shortcoming that the performance of the active decoy-state protocol critically depends on the efficiency of detector. The simulation results show that the combination of the active and passive decoy-state ideas increases the key generation rate. With a one-vacuum-and-two-weak-decoy-state protocol, one can achieve a key generation rate that is close to the theoretical limit of an infinite decoy-state protocol. The performance of the other two protocols is a little less than with the former, but the implementation is easier. Under the same condition of implementation, higher key rates can be obtained with our protocols than with existing methods.     

Decoy-state reference-frame-independent quantum key distribution with both source errors and statistical fluctuations

Reference-frame-independent quantum key distribution(RFI QKD) can generate secret keys without the alignment of reference frames, which is very robust in real-life implementations of QKD systems. However, the performance of decoystate RFI QKD with both source errors and statistical fluctuations is still missing until now. In this paper, we investigate the performance of decoy-state RFI QKD in practical scenarios with two kinds of light sources, the heralded single photon source(HSPS) and the weak coherent source(WCS), and also give clear comparison results of decoy-state RFI QKD with WCS and HSPS. Simulation results show that the secret key rates of decoy-state RFI QKD with WCS are higher than those with HSPS in short distance range, but the secret key rates of RFI QKD with HSPS outperform those with WCS in long distance range.     

基于条件参量下转换光子对的非正交编码诱惑态量子密钥分发

诱惑态方法和非正交编码协议可以有效的抵制光子数分束攻击,所以近来得到了广泛的关注.这里结合了这两种方法提出了一种新方案,光源采用呈泊松分布的参量下转换光子对,发送方随机的改变抽运光的强度获得不同强度的信号光,信号态用来产生密钥,诱惑态用来监测窃听,并估算单光子和两光子的计数率和量子误码率,模拟了密钥产生率与传输距离的关系曲线,分析了该方案可以进一步提高安全量子密钥分发的性能.     

Practical decoy-state BB84 quantum key distribution with quantum memory

We generalize BB84 quantum key distribution(QKD) to the scenario where the receiver adopts a heralded quantum memory(QM). With the heralded QM, the valid dark count rate of the receiver's single photon detectors can be mitigated obviously, which will lower the quantum bit error rate, and thus improve the performance of decoy-state BB84 QKD systems in long distance range. Simulation results show that, with practical experimental system parameters, decoy-state BB84 QKD with QM can exhibit performance comparable to that of without QM in short distance range, and exhibit performance better than that without QM in long distance range.     

A long-distance quantum key distribution scheme based on pre-detection of optical pulse with auxiliary state

We construct a circuit based on PBS and CNOT gates, which can be used to determine whether the input pulse is empty or not according to the detection result of the auxiliary state, while the input state will not be changed. The circuit can be treated as a pre-detection device. Equipping the pre-detection device in the front of the receiver of the quantum key distribution(QKD) can reduce the influence of the dark count of the detector, hence increasing the secure communication distance significantly. Simulation results show that the secure communication distance can reach 516 km and 479 km for QKD with perfect single photon source and decoy-state QKD with weak coherent photon source, respectively.