An effected process on finite statistical fluctuation analysis for decoy-state measurement device-independent quantum key distribution

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the decoy-state Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) with four intensities. The average value of successful events and bit errors among the pulse pair set be used to investigate the successful events of different pulses under the statistical fluctuation caused by the finite condition. We demonstrate that the lower bound of successful events number n11estimated by our method can be more tight than the result in [28]. Numerical simulations show that our estimation method can achieve a higher key rate than existing methods with a relatively weak constraints of experimental devices, such as high dark count rate and low detection efficiency of detectors when data size is N = 109.