A Comprehensive Survey on LDPC Code Design for CV-QKD

Resumo

Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV-QKD) represents a promising technology for secure communication, but its practical implementation heavily relies on highly efficient information reconciliation (IR) to extract a secret key from correlated quantum data shared over noisy channels. Low-density parity-check codes (LDPC) have emerged as the state-of-the-art solution for this task due to their capacity-approaching performance. However, designing LDPC codes that perform reliably in the very low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime of CV-QKD, while preserving practical implementation complexity, remains a major challenge. This work presents a comprehensive survey of LDPC code design methodologies for CV-QKD, with particular emphasis on three key structural classes: Quasi-Cyclic (QC-LDPC), Multi-Edge Type (MET-LDPC), and their hybrid form (QC-MET-LDPC).