Passive round-robin differential-quadrature-phase-shift quantum key distribution scheme with untrusted detectors*

Project supported by the Fund from the State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) (Grant No. IPOC2017ZT0).

Liu Hongwei, Qu Wenxiu, Dou Tianqi, Wang Jipeng, Zhang Yong, Ma Haiqiang
       

(color online) Key rates versus transmission distance. (a) The rates for ebit = 3%; (b) The rates for ebit = 11% (solid line) and ebit = 17% (dashed line). Lines labelled ac represent the proposed protocol with L=128, 64, and 32, dashed line in panel (b) is the result when L=128.