Decoy-state quantum key distribution with both source errors and statistical fluctuations

2009/02/28 by Xiang-Bin Wang, Xiang‐Bin Wang, Lin Yang +2 · 3 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Photon #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum cryptography #Quantum information #Quantum key distribution #Quantum mechanics #Statistical fluctuations #Statistical physics #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/11/7/075006

published as New. J. Phys., 11, 075006 (2009) · Published version with revisions

openalex publication_date 2009/07/15 · arxiv created 2009/11/21 · arxiv updated 2015/05/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We show how to calculate the fraction of single-photon counts of the 3-intensity decoy-state quantum cryptography faithfully with both statistical fluctuations and source errors.Our results rely only on the bound values of a few parameters of the states of pulses.

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