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High-rate and high-capacity measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with Fibonacci matrix coding in free space

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This paper proposes a high-rate and high-capacity measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) protocol with Fibonacci-valued and Lucas-valued orbital angular momentum (OAM) entangled states in free space. In the existing MDI-OAM-QKD protocols, the main encoding algorithm handles encoded numbers in a bit-by-bit manner. To design a fast encoding algorithm, we introduce a Fibonacci matrix coding algorithm, by which, encoded numbers are separated into segments longer than one bit. By doing so, when compared to the existing MDI-OAM-QKD protocols, the new protocol can effectively increase the key rate and the coding capacity. This is because Fibonacci sequences are used in preparing OAM entangled states, reducing the misattribution errors (which slow down the execution cycle of the entire QKD) in QKD protocols. Moreover, our protocol keeps the data blocks as small as possible, so as to have more blocks in a given time interval. Most importantly, our proposed protocol can distill multiple Fibonacci key matrices from the same block of data, thus reducing the statistical fluctuations in the sample and increasing the final QKD rate. Last but not the least, the sender and the receiver can omit classical information exchange and bit flipping in the secure key distillation stage.

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Acknowledgements

Hong LAI was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61702427), Doctoral Program of Higher Education (Grant No. SWU115091), and financial support in part by 1000-Plan of Chongqing by Southwest University (Grant No. SWU116007). Mingxing LUO was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61772437) and Sichuan Youth Science & Technique Foundation (Grant No. 2017JQ0048). Jun ZHANG was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61401371). Josef PIEPRZYK has been supported by National Science Centre, Poland (Grant No. UMO-2014/15/B/ST6/05130).

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  1. School of Computer and Information Science and Centre for Research and Innovation in Software Engineering (RISE), Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China

    Hong Lai

  2. Information Security and National Computing Grid Laboratory, School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China

    Mingxing Luo

  3. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 4000, Australia

    Josef Pieprzyk

  4. Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 01-248, Poland

    Josef Pieprzyk

  5. School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, 3220, Australia

    Jun Zhang & Lei Pan

  6. Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2109, Australia

    Mehmet A. Orgun

  7. Faculty of Information Technology, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, 519020, China

    Mehmet A. Orgun

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Lai, H., Luo, M., Pieprzyk, J. et al. High-rate and high-capacity measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with Fibonacci matrix coding in free space. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 61, 062501 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-017-9291-6

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