Monday, May 7, 2012

1205.0959 (Rémi Blandino et al.)

Improving the maximum transmission distance of continuous-variable
quantum key distribution using a noiseless amplifier
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Rémi Blandino, Anthony Leverrier, Marco Barbieri, Jean Etesse, Philippe Grangier, Rosa Tualle-Brouri
We show that the maximum transmission distance of continuous-variable quantum key distribution in presence of a Gaussian noisy lossy channel can be arbitrarily increased using a linear noiseless amplifier. We explicitly consider a protocol using amplitude and phase modulated coherent states with reverse reconciliation. We find that a noiseless amplifier with amplitude gain g can increase the maximum admissible losses by a factor 1/g^2.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0959

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