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 source errors when the number of sent pulses is N = 10¹⁰. The solid (dashed) curves from left to right denote the secret key rates of the decoy-state RFI QKD with WCS (HSPS) with δ = 0.04, 0.02, and 0, respectively.