Decoy-state reference-frame-independent quantum key distribution with both source errors and statistical fluctuations

Liu Kang^{1, 2}, Li Jian^{1, 3}, Zhu Jian-Rong^{1, 2}, Zhang Chun-Mei^{1, 2, ‡}, Wang Qin^{1, 2, §}

(color online) Comparison results of the decoy-state RFI QKD with WCS and HSPS when considering statistical fluctuations. The solid (dashed) curves from left to right refer to the secret key rates of the decoy-state RFI QKD using WCS (HSPS) with N = 10⁹, 10¹⁰, and 10¹¹, respectively.