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[23p-A601-2]Proposal of Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution Using Delayed Interferometer

〇Aoki Sasahara1, Kyo Inoue1, Toshimori Honjo2 (1.Osaka univ., 2.NTT Basic Research Lab.)

Keywords:

quantum key distribution,tiwn field,delayed interferometer

Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution (TF-QKD) is a QKD protocol that enables a long QKD distance. This paper proposes a novel TF-QKD scheme, where Alice and Bob send weak coherent pulse trains with phases of and a time interval of T to Charlie located in the middle between them, who receives the pulses through a delay interferometer with a delay time of T/2.
The proposed scheme features the robustness against photon number splitting attack, requiring no decoy method and resulting in a high key creation efficiency.
We calculated the system performance assuming typical eavesdropping, and showed that the key generation rate is proportional to the square root of the transmission transmissivity.