期刊
PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
卷 3, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013279
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- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [820466]
The study of free-space quantum communications requires tools from quantum information theory, optics, and turbulence theory. The paper provides analytical tools for assessing the composable finite-size security of coherent-state protocols in general conditions. The research shows the ultimate rates for key and entanglement distribution through a free-space link and the suitability of free-space channels for high-rate quantum key distribution.
The study of free-space quantum communications requires tools from quantum information theory, optics, and turbulence theory. Here we combine these tools to bound the ultimate rates for key and entanglement distribution through a free-space link, where the propagation of quantum systems is generally affected by diffraction, atmospheric extinction, turbulence, pointing errors, and background noise. Besides establishing ultimate limits, we also show that the composable secret-key rate achievable by a suitable (pilot-guided and postselected) coherent-state protocol is sufficiently close to these limits, therefore showing the suitability of free-space channels for high-rate quantum key distribution. Our paper provides analytical tools for assessing the composable finite-size security of coherent-state protocols in general conditions from the standard assumption of a stable communication channel (as is typical in fiber-based connections) to the more challenging scenario of a fading channel (as is typical in free-space links).
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