Fully device-independent quantum key distribution using synchronous correlations

TitleFully device-independent quantum key distribution using synchronous correlations
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsRodrigues, N, Lackey, B
Date Published10/27/2021
KeywordsFOS: Physical sciences, Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Abstract

We derive a device-independent quantum key distribution protocol based on synchronous correlations and their Bell inequalities. This protocol offers several advantages over other device-independent schemes including symmetry between the two users and no need for preshared randomness. We close a "synchronicity" loophole by showing that an almost synchronous correlation inherits the self-testing property of the associated synchronous correlation. We also pose a new security assumption that closes the "locality" (or "causality") loophole: an unbounded adversary with even a small uncertainty about the users' choice of measurement bases cannot produce any almost synchronous correlation that approximately maximally violates a synchronous Bell inequality.

URLhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14530
DOI10.48550/ARXIV.2110.14530