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Toward secure communication using intra-particle entanglement

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We explore the use of the resource of intra-particle entanglement for secure quantum key distribution in the device-independent scenario. By virtue of the local nature of such entanglement, Bell tests must be implemented locally, which leads to a natural decoupling of device errors from channel errors. We consider a side-channel attack on the sender’s state preparation device, for which the intra-particle entanglement-based scheme is shown to be more secure than the one that uses separable states. Of practical relevance is the fact that such entanglement can be easily generated using linear optics.

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Acknowledgments

ASM and DH acknowledge support from the Department of Science and Technology, India (DST) Project SR/S2/LOP-08/2013, and RS for the DST-supported Project SR/S2/LOP-02/2012. DH also thanks the Centre for Science, Kolkata for support.

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  1. Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India

    S. Adhikari

  2. CAPSS, Department of Physics, Bose Institute, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700091, India

    Dipankar Home

  3. S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700 098, India

    A. S. Majumdar

  4. Department of Physics, NIT, Patna, India

    A. K. Pan

  5. Electrical Communication Engineering Department, IISc, Bangalore, India

    Akshata Shenoy H.

  6. Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research, Bangalore, India

    R. Srikanth

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Adhikari, S., Home, D., Majumdar, A.S. et al. Toward secure communication using intra-particle entanglement. Quantum Inf Process 14, 1451–1468 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-015-0941-0

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