Table 3 Alice and Bob’s basis sifting procedure on the paired locations i and j.

From: Mode-pairing quantum key distribution

 

Alice

   
  

‘0’

X

Z

Bob

    

‘0’

 

‘0’

X

Z

X

 

X

X

‘discard’

Z

 

Z

‘discard’

Z (key generation)

  1. Based on the assigned basis, Alice and Bob decide whether to keep the data for Z-basis key generation, Z(X)-basis parameter estimation, or discard the data.
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