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Secure communication using coherent states

Geraldo A. Barbosa, Eric Corndorf, Prem Kumar, Horace P. Yuen, G. Mauro D'Ariano, Matteo G. A. Paris, Paolo Perinotti

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0210089

Abstract

We demonstrate that secure communication using coherent states is possible. The optimal eavesdropping strategy for an M-ry ciphering scheme shows that the minimum probability of error in a measurement for bit determination can be made arbitrarily close to the pure guessing value Pe=1/2. This ciphering scheme can be optically amplified without degrading the security level. New avenues are open to secure communications at high speeds in fiber-optic or free-space channels.

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