V adim Makarov

67 Pages·2014·14.47 MB·English

Lectures at Quantum information and quantum technologies summer school, Bucharest, Romania, July 2–5, 2014
Quantum cryptography
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Image from cover of
Physics World, March 1998
Communication security you enjoy daily
Paying by credit card in a supermarket
Cell phone conversations, SMS
Email, chat, online calls
Secure browsing, shopping online
Cloud storage and communication between your devices
Software updates on your computer, phone, tablet
Online banking
Off-line banking: the bank needs to communicate internally
Electricity, water: the utility needs to communicate internally
Car keys
Electronic door keys
Government services (online or off-line)
Medical records at your doctor, hospital
Bypassing government surveillance and censorship
Encryption and key distribution
Alice Bob
Secure channel
RNG
Secret key
Public (insecure) channel
Symmetric Symmetric
cipher cipher
Encrypted messages
Messages Messages
Quantum key distribution transmits secret key
by sending quantum states over open channel.
Public key cryptography
E.g., RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman)
Elliptic-curve
Based on hypothesized one-way functions
Unexpected advances in classical cryptanalysis
Shor’s factorization algorithm for quantum computer
P. W. Shor, SIAM J. Comput. 26, 1484 (1997)
Time to build large quantum computer
Re-tool infrastructure Encryption needs be secure
What do we do here? here?
Time
Diagram courtesy M. Mosca
Encryption and key distribution
Alice Bob
Secure channel
RNG
Secret key
Public (insecure) channel
Symmetric Symmetric
cipher cipher
Encrypted messages
Messages Messages
Quantum key distribution transmits secret key
by sending quantum states over open channel.
Quantum key distribution (QKD)
Bob
Alice
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detector basis
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Horizontal-vertical
0 detector basis
polarization filters
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Alice’s bit sequence 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0
Bob’s detection basis
Bob’s measurement 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Retained bit sequence 1 – – 1 0 0 – 1 0 0 – 1 – 0
Image reprinted from article: W. Tittel, G. Ribordy & N. Gisin, “Quantum cryptography,” Physics World, March 1998
Dealing with errors
Errors due to imperfections and Eve.
Must assume that all errors are due to Eve!
- Error correction: standard classical protocols
- Privacy amplification:
secure key random matrix raw key
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Error rate
Free-space QKD over 144 km
T. Schmitt-Manderbach et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010504 (2007)
Alice:
Polarized photon source
S. Nauerth et al., New J. Phys. 11, 065001 (2009)
Single-photon sources
Attenuated laser
Laser Attenuator
(cid:2196) (cid:2879)(cid:2246)
(cid:2246) (cid:2187)
(cid:2246) (cid:2172) (cid:2246) =
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(cid:2196)!
(cid:2172) (cid:2246) = (cid:2777). (cid:2779) (cid:2172) (cid:2246) = (cid:2777). (cid:2777)(cid:2779)
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0.01 0.01
0.001 0.001
0 1 2 3 (cid:2196) 0 1 2 3 (cid:2196)
Parametric down-conversion
Non-linear
crystal
Pump
laser
Heralding detector