Temporal trade-offs in high-dimensional entanglement: a comprehensive noise model for optimal time-bin QKD protocols

arXiv:2609.35488 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/AlexandraEBergmayr-Mann/noise-model-time-bin-QKD

Terminology

• Entanglement — 87× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fidelity — 41× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Key Distribution — 12× in this paper
• Entanglement of Formation — 9× in this paper
• Objective Function — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Matrix Completion — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computational overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• A Survey of OAM-Encoded High-Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution: Foundations, Experiments, and Recent Trends
• High-dimensional quantum communication with scalable photonic entanglement in time and frequency
• Detecting high-dimensional time-bin entanglement in fiber-loop systems
• Bright Source of High-Dimensional Temporal Entanglement

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