Experimental Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key distribution with Flawed State-Preparation over 300 km

arXiv:2610.11428 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Entanglement — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Information Leakage — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Physics — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes

Sources

• Side-channel-free quantum key distribution with practical devices
• Intensity correlations in decoy-state BB84 quantum key distribution systems

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