State-of-the-art survey of quantum cryptography

A Kumar, S Garhwal - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2021 - Springer
In today Internet era, confidential information transmitted over an insecure channel. With the
significant development in the area of quantum computing, there is a need for unconditional …

Practical challenges in quantum key distribution

E Diamanti, HK Lo, B Qi, Z Yuan - npj Quantum Information, 2016 - nature.com
Quantum key distribution (QKD) promises unconditional security in data communication and
is currently being deployed in commercial applications. Nonetheless, before QKD can be …

Phase-matching quantum key distribution

X Ma, P Zeng, H Zhou - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Quantum key distribution allows remote parties to generate information-theoretic secure
keys. The bottleneck throttling its real-life applications lies in the limited communication …

Quantum secure direct communication based on single-photon Bell-state measurement

T Li, GL Long - New Journal of Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Security loopholes exploiting the flaws of practical apparatus, especially non-ideal photon
detectors, are pressing issues in practical quantum communication. We propose a simple …

Quantum cryptography: Key distribution and beyond

A Pathak, R Srikanth - arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.05517, 2018 - arxiv.org
Quantum Cryptography: Key Distribution and Beyond Page 1 Quantum Cryptography: Key
Distribution and Beyond Akshata Shenoy-Hejamadi 1, Anirban Pathak 2 & Srikanth …

Insecurity of detector-device-independent quantum key distribution

S Sajeed, A Huang, S Sun, F Xu, V Makarov, M Curty - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Detector-device-independent quantum key distribution (DDI-QKD) held the promise of being
robust to detector side channels, a major security loophole in quantum key distribution …

Practical side-channel attack on free-space QKD systems with misaligned sources and countermeasures

P Arteaga-Díaz, D Cano, V Fernandez - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Practical implementations of quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols can introduce
additional degrees of freedom in the quantum states that may render them distinguishable to …

Measurement-device-independent quantum communication with an untrusted source

F Xu - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) can provide
enhanced security compared to traditional QKD, and it constitutes an important framework …

Polarization-independent single-photon switch based on a fiber-optical Sagnac interferometer for quantum communication networks

A Alarcon, P González, J Cariñe, G Lima, GB Xavier - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
An essential component of future quantum networks is an optical switch capable of
dynamically routing single photons. Here we implement such a switch, based on a fiber …

Experimental asymmetric plug-and-play measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution

GZ Tang, SH Sun, F Xu, H Chen, CY Li, LM Liang - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) is immune to all
security loopholes on detection. Previous experiments on MDI-QKD required spatially …