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Numerical security proof for the decoy-state BB84 protocol and measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution resistant against large basis misalignment

  • Physical Review Research
  • American Physical Society
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In this work, we incorporate decoy-state analysis into a well-established numerical framework for key rate calculation, and we apply the numerical framework to decoy-state BB84 and measurement-device-independent (MDI) QKD protocols as examples. Additionally, we combine with these decoy-state protocols what is called ``fine-grained statistics,'' which is a variation of existing QKD protocols that makes use of originally discarded data to get a better key rate. We show that such variations can grant protocols resilience against any unknown and slowly changing rotation along one axis, similar to reference-frame-independent QKD, but without the need for encoding physically in an additional rotation-invariant basis. Such an analysis can easily be applied to existing systems, or even data already recorded in previous experiments, to gain a significantly higher key rate when considerable misalignment is present, extending the maximum distance for BB84 and MDI-QKD and reducing the need for manual alignment in an experiment.

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10.1103/physrevresearch.4.043097
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W4308997610
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Physical Review Research
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