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Improving the lower bound to the secret-key capacity of the thermal amplifier channel

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Wang, Gan; Ottaviani, Carlo; Guo, Hong; Pirandola, Stefano
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Abstract
We consider the noisy thermal amplifier channel, where signal modes are amplified together with environmental thermal modes. We focus on the secret-key capacity of this channel, which is the maximum amount of secret bits that two remote parties can generate by means of the most general adaptive protocol, assisted by unlimited and two-way classical communication. For this channel only upper and lower bounds are known, and in this work we improve the lower bound. We consider a protocol based on squeezed states and homodyne detections, in both direct and reverse reconciliation. In particular, we assume that trusted thermal noise is mixed on beam splitters controlled by the parties in a way to assist their homodyne detections. The new improved lower bounds to the secret-key capacity are obtained by optimizing the key rates over the variance of the trusted noise injected, and the transmissivity of the parties’ beam splitters. Our results confirm that there is a separation between the coherent information of the thermal amplifier channel and its secret key capacity.
Date issued
2019-01
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120469
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Journal
European Physical Journal D
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
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Wang, Gan et al. "Improving the lower bound to the secret-key capacity of the thermal amplifier channel." European Physical Journal D January 2019, 73 (January 2019): 17 © 2019 The Author(s)
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1434-6060
1434-6079

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