Advances in quantum cryptography

S Pirandola, UL Andersen, L Banchi… - Advances in optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Quantum cryptography is arguably the fastest growing area in quantum information science.
Novel theoretical protocols are designed on a regular basis, security proofs are constantly …

Geometric perspective on quantum parameter estimation

JS Sidhu, P Kok - AVS Quantum Science, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum metrology holds the promise of an early practical application of quantum
technologies, in which measurements of physical quantities can be made with much greater …

Asymptotic security of continuous-variable quantum key distribution with a discrete modulation

S Ghorai, P Grangier, E Diamanti, A Leverrier - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We establish a lower bound on the asymptotic secret key rate of continuous-variable
quantum key distribution with a discrete modulation of coherent states. The bound is valid …

Asymptotic security analysis of discrete-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution

J Lin, T Upadhyaya, N Lütkenhaus - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV QKD) protocols with discrete modulation
are interesting due to their experimental simplicity and their great potential for massive …

Discrete-modulation continuous-variable quantum key distribution enhanced by quantum scissors

M Ghalaii, C Ottaviani, R Kumar… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is known that quantum scissors, as non-deterministic amplifiers, can enhance the
performance of Gaussian-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV …

Continuous-variable quantum cryptography with discrete alphabets: Composable security under collective Gaussian attacks

P Papanastasiou, S Pirandola - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
We consider continuous-variable quantum key distribution with discrete-alphabet
encodings. In particular, we study protocols where information is encoded in the phase of …

Long-distance continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with discrete modulation

HX Ma, P Huang, DY Bai, T Wang, SY Wang, WS Bao… - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We propose a long-distance continuous-variable measurement-device-independent
quantum key distribution (CV-MDI-QKD) protocol with discrete modulation. This kind of …

Discrete-variable quantum key distribution with homodyne detection

IW Primaatmaja, CC Liang, G Zhang, JY Haw… - Quantum, 2022 - quantum-journal.org
Most quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols can be classified as either a discrete-variable
(DV) protocol or continuous-variable (CV) protocol, based on how classical information is …

Discrete-modulation continuous-variable quantum key distribution with a high key rate

P Wang, Y Zhang, Z Lu, X Wang, Y Li - New Journal of Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Discrete-modulation continuous-variable (CV) quantum key distribution has the potential for
large-scale deployment in secure quantum communication networks owing to its low …

Multi-label learning for improving discretely-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution

Q Liao, G **ao, H Zhong, Y Guo - New Journal of Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a novel scheme for discretely-modulated continuous-variable quantum key
distribution (CVQKD) using machine learning technologies, which called multi-label learning …