2004/11/30 by M. P. Almeida, S. P. Walborn, P. H. Souto Ribeiro
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.72.022313
6 pages, 6 figures, subimitted for publication
arxiv created 2005/01/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We investigate the utility of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations of the position and momentum of photon pairs from parametric down-conversion in the implementation of a secure quantum key distribution protocol. We show that security is guaranteed by the entanglement between downconverted pairs, and can be checked by either direct comparison of Alice and Bob's measurement results or evaluation of an inequality of the sort proposed by Mancini et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 120401 (2002)).