We present an optical scheme to almost completely teleport a bipartite entangled coherent state using afour-partite cluster-type entangled coherent state as quantum channel.The scheme is based on optical elements such...We present an optical scheme to almost completely teleport a bipartite entangled coherent state using afour-partite cluster-type entangled coherent state as quantum channel.The scheme is based on optical elements suchas beam splitters,phase shifters,and photon detectors.We also obtain the average fidelity of the teleportation process.It is shown that the average fidelity is quite close to unity if the mean photon number of the coherent state is not toosmall.展开更多
Heralded noiseless amplification is beneficial in overcoming transmission photon loss in a noisy quantum channel. We propose a single-photon-assisted heralded noiseless amplification protocol of the single- photon ent...Heralded noiseless amplification is beneficial in overcoming transmission photon loss in a noisy quantum channel. We propose a single-photon-assisted heralded noiseless amplification protocol of the single- photon entanglement （SPE）, where the single-photon qubit has an arbitrary unknown polarization feature. We focus on both the complete and partial photon loss during the transmission process. After the amplification, the parties can recover the pure less-entangled SPE into a maximally entangled SPE and increase its fidelity. Moreover, the polarization feature of the single-photon qubit will be well preserved and not be leaked. Our protocol can be realized under our current experimental condition. Based on the features above, our protocol may be useful in the quantum secure communication schemes that encode information in the polarization degree of freedom of photons.展开更多
In quantum key distribution(QKD),the passive decoy-state method can simplify the intensity modulation and reduce some of side-channel information leakage and modulation errors.It is usually implemented with a heralded...In quantum key distribution(QKD),the passive decoy-state method can simplify the intensity modulation and reduce some of side-channel information leakage and modulation errors.It is usually implemented with a heralded single-photon source.In Wang et al 2016(Phys.Rev.A 96032312),a novel passive decoy-state method is proposed by Wang et al,which uses two local detectors to generate more detection events for tightly estimating channel parameters.However,in the original scheme,the two local detectors are assumed to be identical,including the same detection efficiency and dark count rate,which is often not satisfied in the realistic experiment.In this paper,we construct a model for this passive decoy-state QKD scheme with two mismatched detectors and explore the effect on QKD performance with certain parameters.We also take the finite-size effect into consideration,showing the performance with statistical fluctuations.The results show that the efficiencies of local detectors affect the key rate more obviously than dark count rates.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60708003the National Key Basic Research Program of China under Grant No.2006CB921604the Basic Key Program of Shanghai Municipality under Grant No.07JC14017
文摘We present an optical scheme to almost completely teleport a bipartite entangled coherent state using afour-partite cluster-type entangled coherent state as quantum channel.The scheme is based on optical elements suchas beam splitters,phase shifters,and photon detectors.We also obtain the average fidelity of the teleportation process.It is shown that the average fidelity is quite close to unity if the mean photon number of the coherent state is not toosmall.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11474168 and 11747161 and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu province under Grant No. BK20151502.
文摘Heralded noiseless amplification is beneficial in overcoming transmission photon loss in a noisy quantum channel. We propose a single-photon-assisted heralded noiseless amplification protocol of the single- photon entanglement （SPE）, where the single-photon qubit has an arbitrary unknown polarization feature. We focus on both the complete and partial photon loss during the transmission process. After the amplification, the parties can recover the pure less-entangled SPE into a maximally entangled SPE and increase its fidelity. Moreover, the polarization feature of the single-photon qubit will be well preserved and not be leaked. Our protocol can be realized under our current experimental condition. Based on the features above, our protocol may be useful in the quantum secure communication schemes that encode information in the polarization degree of freedom of photons.
基金We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFA0306400,2017YFA0304100)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12074194,11774180,U19A2075,12104240,62101285)+2 种基金the Leading-edge technology Program of Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation(BK20192001)Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20210582)NUPTSF(NY220122,NY220123).
文摘In quantum key distribution(QKD),the passive decoy-state method can simplify the intensity modulation and reduce some of side-channel information leakage and modulation errors.It is usually implemented with a heralded single-photon source.In Wang et al 2016(Phys.Rev.A 96032312),a novel passive decoy-state method is proposed by Wang et al,which uses two local detectors to generate more detection events for tightly estimating channel parameters.However,in the original scheme,the two local detectors are assumed to be identical,including the same detection efficiency and dark count rate,which is often not satisfied in the realistic experiment.In this paper,we construct a model for this passive decoy-state QKD scheme with two mismatched detectors and explore the effect on QKD performance with certain parameters.We also take the finite-size effect into consideration,showing the performance with statistical fluctuations.The results show that the efficiencies of local detectors affect the key rate more obviously than dark count rates.
