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Quantum Illumination with Gaussian States
Si-Hui Tan, Baris I. Erkmen, Vittorio Giovannetti +5
An optical transmitter irradiates a target region containing a bright thermal-noise bath in which a low-reflectivity object might be embedded. The light received from this region i…
Symmetric collective attacks for the eavesdropping of symmetric quantum key distribution
Stefano Pirandola
We consider the collective eavesdropping of the BB84 and six-state protocols. Since these protocols are symmetric in the eigenstates of conjugate bases, we consider collective atta…
Direct and Reverse Secret-Key Capacities of a Quantum Channel
Stefano Pirandola, Raul Garcia-Patron, Samuel L. Braunstein +1
We define the direct and reverse secret-key capacities of a memoryless quantum channel as the optimal rates that entanglement-based quantum key distribution protocols can reach by…
Computable bounds for the discrimination of Gaussian states
Stefano Pirandola, Seth Lloyd
By combining the Minkowski inequality and the quantum Chernoff bound, we derive easy-to-compute upper bounds for the error probability affecting the optimal discrimination of Gauss…
Security of two-way quantum cryptography against asymmetric Gaussian attacks
Stefano Pirandola, Stefano Mancini, Seth Lloyd +1
Recently, we have shown the advantages of two-way quantum communications in continuous variable quantum cryptography. Thanks to this new approach, two honest users can achieve a no…
Characterization of Collective Gaussian Attacks and Security of Coherent-State Quantum Cryptography
Stefano Pirandola, Samuel L. Braunstein, Seth Lloyd
We provide a simple description of the most general collective Gaussian attack in continuous-variable quantum cryptography. In the scenario of such general attacks, we analyze the…