Evaluating the Eavesdropper Entropy via Bloch-Messiah Decomposition

Abstract

We explore the Bloch-Messiah decomposition of Gaussian unitary to analyze the Entangling Cloner Attack performed by an eavesdropper on a discrete modulated continuous variable QKD scenario. Such a decomposition allows to replace the nonlinear unitary resulting from eavesdropping and tracing out Bob's mode into an architecture of single-mode operations (squeezers, phase shifters and displacements) and a two-mode beam splitter. Based on such architecture we were able to get tighter upper bounds to the eavesdropper entropy for a discrete modulated CVQKD scheme. The new bounds are justified from the Gaussian extremality property valid for entangled-based equivalent protocols.