Utilizing linear optical devices, the principle of B92 quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol is demonstrated in free space with a distance of transmission of 2.2 meters. The faint laser pulses with 650 nm wavelength are used as the single photon sources. The experimental results show that the eavesdropping behavior in the signal transmission can be detected. We also discuss the problems and solutions in using the quantum cryptography communication practically. It is pointed out that one of the approaches to increasing the distance of the quantum communication is to overcome the attenuation of the single photon in transmission. This could not be solved by the use of single photon source, and new quantum communication protocols are needed to solve these problems.
WANG Chuan1, ZHANG Jingfu1, WANG Pingxiao1, DENG Fuguo1, AI Qing1 & LONG Guilu1,2 1. Department of Physics, Key Laboratory for Quantum Information and Measurements, Tsinghua Univer- sity, Beijing 100084, China
An entanglement measure for multipartite pure states is formulated using the product of the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density matrices of the constituents. Based on this new measure, all possible ways of the maximal entanglement of the triqubit pure states are studied in detail and all types of the maximal entanglement have been compared with the result of ‘the average entropy’. The new measure can be used to calculate the degree of entanglement, and an improvement is given in the area near the zero entropy.
CAO Wancang1,2, LIU Dan2, PAN Feng3 & LONG Guilu2,4 1. Department of Physics, Chifeng College, Chifeng 024001, China
