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NPJ QUANTUM INFORMATION
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s41534-018-0070-6
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through the NSERC Discovery Grant Program
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The speed at which two remote parties can exchange secret keys in continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) is currently limited by the computational complexity of key reconciliation. Multi-dimensional reconciliation using multi-edge low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with low code rates and long block lengths has been shown to improve error-correction performance and extend the maximum reconciliation distance. We introduce a quasi-cyclic code construction for multi-edge codes that is highly suitable for hardware-accelerated decoding on a graphics processing unit (GPU). When combined with an 8-dimensional reconciliation scheme, our LDPC decoder achieves an information throughput of 7.16 Kbit/s on a single NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPU, at a maximum distance of 142 km with a secret key rate of 6.64 x 10(-8) bits/pulse for a rate 0.02 code with block length of 10(6) bits. The LDPC codes presented in this work can be used to extend the previous maximum CV-QKD distance of 100 km to 142 km, while delivering up to 3.50x higher information throughput over the tight upper bound on secret key rate for a lossy channel.
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