Hi all,

Tomorrow Martin Sandfuchs will tell us about his recent work with Marcus Haberland, Vilasini and Ramona Wolf on 'Security of differential phase shift QKD from relativistic principles'. See below for the abstract.

The talk will take place at 4pm in HIT F 12. Contrary to the past, there will be no zoom livestreaming anymore of the QIT seminar.

Best, Ladina

Title: Security of differential phase shift QKD from relativistic principles

Abstract:

The design of quantum protocols for secure key generation poses many challenges: On the one hand, they need to be practical concerning experimental realisations. On the other hand, their theoretical description must be simple enough to allow for a security proof against all possible attacks. Often, these two requirements are in conflict with each other, and the differential phase shift (DPS) QKD protocol is an excellent example of this: It is designed to be implementable with current optical telecommunication technology, which, for this protocol, comes at the cost that many standard security proof techniques do not apply to it. In this work, we give the first full security proof of DPS QKD against general attacks, including finite-size effects. The proof combines techniques from quantum information theory, quantum optics, and relativity. We first give a security proof of a QKD protocol whose security stems from relativistic constraints. We then show that DPS QKD can be formulated as an instance of the relativistic protocol. In addition, we show that coherent attacks on the DPS protocol are, in fact, stronger than collective attacks.