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UPCOMING EVENT
Professor Emina Soljanin
November 14, 2022
Lecture 2 PM & Reception 3 PM at JKW Auditorium
"On Some Quantom Internet Information Rates"
This talk discusses information rates in two quantum internet building blocks concerning quantum (conference) key distribution (QKD). We first focus on QKD based on time-entangled photon pairs. These systems extract key bits from photon arrival times and thus promise to deliver more than one bit per photon as opposed to polarization-entanglement QKD, where each entangled photon pair contributes at most one bit to the secret key. However, realistic photon detectors exhibit time jitter and require non-zero time to recover upon registering a photon arrival. We model and evaluate the effect of these impairments on information rates generated based on photon arrival times and ask whether time-entanglement-based QKD can live up to its promise. We next ask whether quantum network multicast can make conference key agreements more efficient. Since there is no quantum information without
physical representation (e.g., by photons), the problem of quantum multicast at first seems nothing more than the multi-commodity flow problem of shipping a collection of different commodities through a shared network. However, we show that besides the apparent similarity to the multicommodity flow problems, quantum networks, to a certain extent, behave as classical information networks. In particular, we show that lossless compression of multicast quantum states is possible and significantly reduces the link capacity requirements of the multicast.