Deterministic quantum distribution of a d-ary key

  • Authors:
  • A. Eusebi;S. Mancini

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, Università di Camerino, Camerino, Italy;Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Camerino, Camerino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Quantum Information & Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present an extension to a d-ary alphabet of a recently proposed deterministic quantum key distribution protocol. It relies on the use of mutually unbiased bases in prime power dimension d, for which we provide an explicit expression. Then, by considering a powerful individual attack, we show that the security of the protocol is maximal for d = 3.