title: Simulating of the measurement-device independent quantum key distribution with phase randomized general sources.
abstract: We present a model on the simulation of the measurement-device independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) with phase randomized general sources. It can be used to predict experimental observations of a MDI-QKD with linear channel loss, simulating corresponding values for the gains, the error rates in different basis, and also the final key rates. Our model can be applicable to the MDI-QKDs with arbitrary probabilistic mixture of different photon states or using any coding schemes. Therefore, it is useful in characterizing and evaluating the performance of the MDI-QKD protocol, making it a valuable tool in studying the quantum key distributions.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Signal Processing and Transmission, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China.
authors.forename: Qin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: 1] Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China [2] Jinan Institute of Quantum Technology, Shandong Academy of Information Technology, Jinan, China.
authors.forename: Xiang-Bin
authors.initials: XB
authors.lastname: Wang
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