Free-space continuous-variable quantum key distribution of unidimensional Gaussian modulation using polarized coherent-states in urban environment
arXiv:1810.00408 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.100.012325
Abstract
We use single homodyne detector to accomplish Continuous-Variable quantum key distribution(CV QKD) in a laboratory and urban environment free-space channel. This is based on Gaussian modulation with coherent-states in the polarization degree of freedom. We achieved a QKD distance at 460m, at the repetition rate of 10 kHz. We give the security of this protocol against collective attack in the asymptotic regime. The secure key rate is 0.152 kbps at the typical reconciliation efficiency of 0.95. The experiment setup of this scheme is simplified and the difficulty to realize has been remarkably reduced compared to traditional symmetric modulation ones, for example, GG02 protocol. The influence of security key rate brought by asymmetric modulation is small in a relative low channel loss condition in the free-space environment. This scheme is expected to be significance meaning to the future practically utilize.
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