qkd-simulation

Quantum Key Distribution simulation project for CSCI498: Introduction to Quantum Computing

Includes a survey and simulation of the BB84, B92, and E91 protocols for quantum key distribution, as well as solutions to selected exercises from Nielsen & Chuang's Quantum Computation and Quantum Information.

Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

Example Usage

import qkdsim.simulations as sim
sim.runBB84(<keylen>)

Modules used:

NumPy - www.numpy.org

PyCrypto - https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto

Quantum Information Toolkit (QIT) - qit.sourceforge.net

Nose - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nose/1.3.7