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Past exam of the laser science and quantum information processing course of the University of Oxford 2009 8 3 Solution by
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Eve's computational-basis intercept-resend attack applies a projective measurement of to Bob's photon and discards her outcome from Alice and Bob's description. Their resulting density matrix isThis separable state keeps but removes . HenceUsing the same signed Bell-test statistic givesThe ideal value is halved, and the attack no longer violates the CHSH inequality.
The key data show why several settings matter. For , Eve's measurement leaves perfect anticorrelation, so this subset has zero bit errors after Bob flips his assignment. For , , so correct anticorrelation has probability : its quantum bit error rate is . If both key-setting pairs occur equally often, their combined raw-key error rate is . The Bell-test change detects this attack even though the vertical/horizontal key subset alone would not.
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