Quantum key distribution using generalized contextuality against post-quantum eavesdroppers

arXiv:2610.00595 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Comments: 9+7 pages, 5 figures. Comments are welcome!

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Adversarial Model — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Entanglement — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Information Leakage — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Spectral Gap — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Contextuality-based quantum key distribution with deterministic single-photon sources
• Composable simultaneous purification: when all communication scenarios reduce to spatial correlations
• A Contextuality Based Quantum Key Distribution Protocol

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