Multi-mode CV-QKD with Non-Gaussian Operations
arXiv:1911.10310 · doi:10.1002/que2.40
Abstract
Non-Gaussian operations have been studied intensively in recent years due to their ability to increase the secret key rate for certain CV-QKD protocols. However, most previous studies on such protocols are carried out in a single-mode setting, even though in reality any quantum state contains multi-mode components in frequency space. In this work we investigate the use of non-Gaussian operations in a multi-mode CV-QKD system. Our main finding is that, contrary to single-mode CV-QKD systems, in generic multi-mode CV-QKD systems it is possible to use non-Gaussian operations to increase the optimized secret key rate. More specifically, we find that at losses of order 30dB, which represents a distance of order 160km and the effective maximum distance for CV-QKD, the key rate for multi-mode non-Gaussian operations can be orders of magnitude higher than single-mode operations. Our results are important for real-world CV-QKD systems especially those dependent on quantum error correction - a process that requires non-Gaussian effects.
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