Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Practical continuous-variable quantum key distribution with composable security

  • Nitin Jain,
  • Hou-Man Chin,
  • Hossein Mani,
  • Cosmo Lupo,
  • Dino Solar Nikolic,
  • Arne Kordts,
  • Stefano Pirandola,
  • Thomas Brochmann Pedersen,
  • Matthias Kolb,
  • Bernhard Ömer,
  • Christoph Pacher,
  • Tobias Gehring,
  • Ulrik L. Andersen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32161-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Continuous-variable QKD protocols are usually easier to implement than discrete-variables ones, but their security analyses are less developed. Here, the authors propose and demonstrate in the lab a CVQKD protocol that can generate composable keys secure against collective attacks.