Title | ||
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Characterizing Turbulence-Induced Decay of Mutual Unbiasedness of Complementary Bases Relevant to Propagated Photonic Spatial-Mode States |
Abstract | ||
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Mutually complementary bases are crucial to secure quantum key distribution (QKD). By aiming at free-space QKD with use of spatially structured photons, the effect of turbulence on the mutual unbiasedness of two complementary bases relevant to photonic orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) modes is modeled theoretically, with novel insightful expressions and physical explanations yielded. For two complementary bases constructed from Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes with a fixed radial index of zero, it is shown that the superposed joint-two-LG-mode (JTLGM) correlation function plays a fundamental role in determining the turbulence-induced mutual-unbiasedness decay. The mutual information between the sent and detected photonic states is used as a metric to quantify the degree of turbulence-induced mutual-unbiasedness decay. It is found that the degree of turbulence-induced mutual-unbiasedness decay depends on the scaled atmospheric coherence width, anisotropy of turbulence and contents of the complementary bases, and it can become non-negligible in certain cases. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2931554 | IEEE ACCESS |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Mutual unbiasedness,complementary bases,photonic spatial-mode state,quantum key distribution,atmospheric turbulence,anisotropy | Journal | 7 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
2169-3536 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Chunyi Chen | 1 | 1 | 7.11 |
Huamin Yang | 2 | 19 | 17.29 |