3 papers
quant-ph2025
Opportunistic Scheduling for Single-downlink Satellite-based Quantum Key Distribution
Md Zakir Hossain, Nitish K. Panigrahy, Walter O. Krawec +2
Satellite-based quantum key distribution (QKD), leveraging low photon loss in free-space quantum communication, is widely regarded as one of the most promising directions to achiev…
quant-ph2025
Quantum Public Key Encryption for NISQ Devices
Nishant Rodrigues, Walter O. Krawec, Brad Lackey +2
Quantum public-key encryption (PKE), where public-keys and/or ciphertexts can be quantum states, is an important primitive in quantum cryptography. Unlike classical PKE (e.g., RSA…
quant-ph2025
Blockwise Post-processing in Satellite-based Quantum Key Distribution
Minu J. Bae, Nitish K. Panigrahy, Prajit Dhara +5
Free-space satellite communication has significantly lower photon loss than terrestrial communication via optical fibers. Satellite-based quantum key distribution (QKD) leverages t…