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 …

A generic construction of quantum-oblivious-key-transfer-based private query with ideal database security and zero failure

CY Wei, XQ Cai, B Liu, TY Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Higher security and lower failure probability have always been people's pursuits in quantum-
oblivious-key-transfer-based private query (QOKT-PQ) protocols since Jacobi et al.[Phys …

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 …

Improved security bound for the round-robin-differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution

ZQ Yin, S Wang, W Chen, YG Han, R Wang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The round-robin-differential-phase-shift (RRDPS) quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol
has attracted intensive study due to its distinct security characteristics; eg, information …

High-dimensional encoding in the round-robin differential-phase-shift protocol

M Stasiuk, F Hufnagel, X Gao, AZ Goldberg… - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
In quantum key distribution (QKD), protocols are tailored to adopt desirable experimental
attributes, including high key rates, operation in high noise levels, and practical security …

Round-robin differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution with heralded pair-coherent sources

L Wang, S Zhao - Quantum Information Processing, 2017 - Springer
Round-robin differential-phase-shift (RRDPS) quantum key distribution (QKD) scheme
provides an effective way to overcome the signal disturbance from the transmission process …

Practical round-robin differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution

Z Zhang, X Yuan, Z Cao, X Ma - New Journal of Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The security of quantum key distribution (QKD) relies on the Heisenberg uncertainty
principle, with which legitimate users are able to estimate information leakage by monitoring …

Security of round-robin differential-phase-shift quantum-key-distribution protocol with correlated light sources

A Mizutani, G Kato - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Among various quantum-key-distribution (QKD) protocols, the round-robin differential-phase-
shift (RRDPS) protocol has a unique feature where its security is guaranteed without …

Phase-matching quantum key distribution based on heralded pair-coherent source

L Han, Y Yu, W Lu, K Xue, W Li, S Zhao - Quantum Information Processing, 2022 - Springer
Twin-field quantum key distribution (TF-QKD) is known for its capacity of overcoming the
fundamental rate-distance limit of QKD, and a variety of its variants have been derived. One …

Differential-phase-shift quantum-key-distribution protocol with a small number of random delays

Y Hatakeyama, A Mizutani, G Kato, N Imoto, K Tamaki - Physical review a, 2017 - APS
The differential-phase-shift (DPS) quantum-key-distribution (QKD) protocol was proposed
aiming at simple implementation, but it can tolerate only a small disturbance in a quantum …