Finite-size analysis of continuous-variable quantum key distribution with entanglement in the middle*

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61572529, 61871407, and 61801522) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 2013M542119 and 2014T70772).

Guo Ying1, 2, Su Yu2, Zhou Jian2, Zhang Ling2, Huang Duan2, †
       

(a) Secret key rate under Gaussian collective attack with symmetric configuration. (b) Secret key rate under collective Gaussian attack with asymmetric configuration. (c) Secret key rate under coherent attack with symmetric configuration. (d) Secret key rate under coherent attack with asymmetric configuration. In the asymmetric configuration, the entangled source is placed near Alice with T1 = 0.99. For the coherent attack, the value of g is ( ω 1 1 ) ( ω 2 + 1 ) . The blue line, orange line and red line represent the block lengths of N = 104, 105 and ∞, respectively. The modulation variance V is 10, the reconciliation efficiency is 0.95, the theoretical excess noise is set as 1.1, the security parameter ε is set as 10−10, and η = n/N = 0.5.