Journal
PRX QUANTUM
Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PRXQuantum.3.020315
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61801420]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20211145]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [020414380182]
- Key Research and Development Program of Nanjing Jiangbei New Aera [ZDYD20210101]
- Key-Area Research and Devel-opment Program of Guangdong Province [2020B0303040001]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2021M691536]
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In this study, an asynchronous measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution protocol is proposed, which can surpass the secret key capacity without phase tracking and phase locking. By leveraging the concept of time multiplexing, asynchronous two-photon Bell-state measurement is realized. The protocol has high key rates and transmission distance advantages compared to other protocols.
Twin-field quantum key distribution can overcome the secret key capacity of repeaterless quantum key distribution via single-photon interference. However, to compensate for the channel fluctuations and lock the laser fluctuations, the techniques of phase tracking and phase locking are indispensable in experiment, which drastically increase experimental complexity and hinder free-space realization. We herein present an asynchronous measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution protocol that can surpass the secret key capacity even without phase tracking and phase locking. Leveraging the concept of time multiplexing, asynchronous two-photon Bell-state measurement is realized by postmatching two interference detection events. For a 1 GHz system, the new protocol reaches a transmission distance of 450 km without phase tracking. After further removing phase locking, our protocol is still capable of breaking the capacity at 270 km. Intriguingly, when using the same experimental techniques, our protocol has a higher key rate than the phase-matching-type twin-field protocol. In the presence of imperfect intensity modulation, it also has a significant advantage in terms of the transmission distance over the sending-or-not-sending-type twin-field protocol. With high key rates and accessible technology, our work provides a promising candidate for practical scalable quantum communication networks.
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