Table 1 Experimental parameters of numerical simulations for device-independent quantum key distribution (DD-QKD) and measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) protocols, including the loss coefficient of the standard fiber link α, the detection efficiency of single-photon detectors ηD, the probability that a photon hit the erroneous detector eDet, the dark count rate of single-photon detectors Y0, and the error correction efficiency f, which are from Ref. 26 and Refs. 18,27 respectively.

From: Improving the performance of practical decoy-state quantum key distribution with advantage distillation technology

Protocols

α

ηD

eDet

Y0

f

μ

DD-QKD

0.21 dB/km

4.5%

3.3%

1.7 × 10−6

1.22

0.48

MDI-QKD

0.2 dB/km

14.5%

1.5%

6.02 × 10−6

1.16

0.48

  1. Moreover, the mean photon number of the signal states μ is also listed here.
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