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Orbital angular momentum-encoded measurement device independent quantum key distribution under atmospheric turbulence

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In this paper, an orbital angular momentum (OAM)-encoded measurement device independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) under atmospheric turbulence is analyzed. The turbulent effect on scattering the OAM states is quantified by the probability of receiving the initial OAM modes, in conjunction with Kolmogorov and non-Kolmogorov models. The key rates of the OAM-encoded MDI-QKD are obtained under various turbulent intensity. Simulation results show that with the increase in radial coordinate, the initial OAM states are gradually diverted to adjacent modes and eventually tend to be randomly distributed. Furthermore, the OAM-encoded MDI-QKD has a slightly longer maximum transmission distance than that of the polarization-encoded MDI-QKD.

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C. Dong is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11704412). C. Dong is supported by Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi (Program No. 2019ZDLGY09-01), the Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Cryptology (Grant No. MMKFKT201823) and Foundation of National University of Defense and Technology (Grant No. ZK17-02-09).

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    Xing-Yu Wang, Shang-Hong Zhao & Wen-Yuan Gu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Cryptology, P.O. Box 5159, Beijing, 100878, China

    Chen Dong

  3. Information and Communication College, National University of Defense and Technology, Xi’an, 710006, China

    Chen Dong

  4. No. 94782 Unit of PLA, Hangzhou, 310021, China

    Zhuo-Dan Zhu

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Wang, XY., Zhao, SH., Dong, C. et al. Orbital angular momentum-encoded measurement device independent quantum key distribution under atmospheric turbulence. Quantum Inf Process 18, 304 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-019-2424-1

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