Loss-tolerant quantum secure positioning with weak laser sources
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Research Lab. of Electronics
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Southern Illinois Univ., Carbonadale, IL (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Computational Sciences and Engineering Division; Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Quantum position verification (QPV) is the art of verifying the geographical location of an untrusted party. It has recently been shown that the widely studied Bennett & Brassard 1984 (BB84) QPV protocol is insecure after the 3 dB loss point assuming local operations and classical communication (LOCC) adversaries. Here in this paper, we propose a time-reversed entanglement swapping QPV protocol (based on measurement-device-independent quantum cryptography) that is highly robust against quantum channel loss. First, assuming ideal qubit sources, we show that the protocol is secure against LOCC adversaries for any quantum channel loss, thereby overcoming the 3 dB loss limit. Then, we analyze the security of the protocol in a more practical setting involving weak laser sources and linear optics. Lastly, in this setting, we find that the security only degrades by an additive constant and the protocol is able to verify positions up to 47 dB channel loss.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); Work for Others (WFO); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; M614000329
- OSTI ID:
- 1325473
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1324497
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review A, Vol. 94, Issue 3; ISSN 2469-9926
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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