Robust diagnostics of dark counts for quantum networks

2019/12/04 by Nikolay Sergeevich Perminov, Perminov, Nikolay Sergeevich, Maxim Aleksandrovich Smirnov +13
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1912.03131

arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1912.01426

arxiv created 2019/12/04 · arxiv updated 2019/12/09

Abstract

In this work, we study the timestamps in the registration of single-photon detector counts in quantum communications. The analysis of afterpulse counts on the basis of several approaches is carried out. Robust diagnostics of keys is proposed to increase the security of quantum networks.

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