S. Pirandola

Energy-constrained two-way capacities of pure-loss and quantum-limited amplifier channels

We determine the two-way quantum, entanglement-distribution, private, and secret-key capacities of the pure-loss bosonic channel under an unconditional mean transmitted-photon-number constraint. For transmissivity $\eta$ and mean photon number $N$, all four capacities coincide and are given by $g(N)-g((1-\eta)N)$, wher...

Energy-constrained two-way capacities of the pure-loss bosonic channel

Heuristic Lookahead Distillation Protocol Search

Bipartite qubit entanglement distillation is the process of converting noisy ebits into pure ebits using only local operations and classical communication. This is a core operation for quantum repeaters, enabling such crucial tasks as long-distance quantum communication and distributed quantum computing. In this work,...

A Throughput-Oriented Analytical Model for Post-Quantum Security Protocols

Growing awareness of the impact of quantum threat on classical cryptography directly translates into a growing demand for accurate network simulation tools capable of estimating the integration effects of quantum-safe cryptography in current systems. In particular, the adoption of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) has a...

Free-Space Quantum Networks and Optimized Fiber-Reinforcement

It is proved that any optimal backbone configuration must correspond to a capacity-maximizing Voronoi tessellation of the network region, and this can be efficiently approximated by a centroidal Voronoi tessellation via Lloyd's algorithm, with backbone nodes connected according to a Delaunay triangulation.