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Passive Light Source Monitoring for Sending or Not Sending Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution

Entropy 2022, 24(5), 592; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24050592
by Xuerui Qian 1,2,3,†, Chunhui Zhang 1,2,3,†, Huawei Yuan 1,2,3, Xingyu Zhou 1,2,3, Jian Li 1,2,3 and Qin Wang 1,2,3,*
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2:
Entropy 2022, 24(5), 592; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24050592
Submission received: 24 March 2022 / Revised: 15 April 2022 / Accepted: 21 April 2022 / Published: 23 April 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Practical Quantum Communication)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors propose a passive light source monitoring scheme for twin-field quantum key distribution. They built a theoretical model and carried out numerical simulations with aim to employ the sending-or-not-sending protocol when there existing intensity fluctuations in the light sources, showing better performance than the reported active light source monitoring. I think the results of this manuscript can be published after  the authors give clearer description of the method used in the numerical simulations performed.

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Reviewer 2 Report

In this article the authors have studied "Passive light source monitoring for sending-or-not-sending twin-field quantum key distribution". My comments regarding the publication of this paper are appended below point-wise:

  1. The paper is well written and the derived results and the findings are clearly presented.
  2. Derived results are correct.
  3. Reference list is complete.
  4. Numerical plots are clearly presented.

Based on the above mentioned points I would strongly recommend publication of this paper.

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