A Simple Scheme for Realizing the Passive Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution

In this paper, we present a scheme on realizing the passive decoy-state quantum key distribution. In this scheme, two weak coherent pulses interfere at a beam-splitter, and pulses in one output port are split by one beam-splitter into two parts which are sent into two local detectors individually. Then, all the clicking and nonclicking events from the local detectors are used to herald the arriving and nonarriving of the signal pulse in the other output port. Accordingly, we can obtain more decoy states in the photon-number space and can thus, achieve more precise estimations for single-photon contributions. In this scheme, we use only one intensity at each input of the beam-splitter to avoid intensity modulation fluctuations existing in other active decoy-state methods. We compare the present scheme with Curty et al.'s passive scheme and the conventional three-intensity decoy-state scheme with the weak coherent sources. Through numerical simulations, we demonstrate that this scheme is better than the other two methods.

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