Assisted Postselective Quantum Transformations and an Improved Photon Number Splitting Attack Strategy

Timur Klevtsov and Dmitry Kronberg ()
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Timur Klevtsov: Department of Mathematical Methods for Quantum Technologies, Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Dmitry Kronberg: Department of Mathematical Methods for Quantum Technologies, Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 24, 1-11

Abstract: Postselective transformations of quantum states is a broader class of operations than deterministic quantum channels. Here, we describe the possibility of increasing the success probability of postselective operations by using additional information, which has a form of pure quantum states and should not be changed in case of success. We describe the conditions under which assistance becomes useful, and provide application of our method which improves the efficiency of photon number splitting attack for a variant of SARG04 quantum key distribution protocol. In our attack scenario, one extra photon, which is unchanged, plays the role of assistance.

Keywords: quantum channels; quantum postselective transformations; unambiguous state discrimination; quantum cryptography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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