Continuous-Variable Quantum Secret Sharing in Fast-Fluctuating Channels

Autor: Fangli Yang, Daowen Qiu, Paulo Mateus
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, Vol 4, Pp 1-9 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2689-1808
DOI: 10.1109/TQE.2023.3322171
Popis: Recently, several continuous-variable quantum secret sharing (CV-QSS) protocols were proposed, while most of them are limited to the fiber channel systems with a relatively stable transmissivity. However, by means of complex channels, the transmissivity fluctuates dramatically in time with a probability distribution, which will lead to a fast-fluctuating attack. Therefore, the security analysis of CV-QSS in fiber channels may not apply to CV-QSS in complex channels. In this article, we study the CV-QSS protocol in the absence of uniform fast-fluctuating channels whose transmissivity changes with respect to a uniform probability distribution. We give a lower bound of secret key rate to provide security analysis against the fast-fluctuating attack for the CV-QSS protocol. In particular, the realistic highly asymmetric beam splitter (HABS) in CV-QSS protocol is investigated in detail here for the first time, and numerical simulation shows that the security bound is overestimated when the HABS is treated as the perfect device.
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