CLIP: A Distributed Emulation Platform for Research on Information Reconciliation

In the quantum key distribution (QKD) system, information reconciliation is an essential component within the QKD post processing. Emulation techniques play an important role in information reconciliation since it enables the research of information processing to be independent with expensive and time-consuming physical systems. In this paper, we design CLIP, a novel Cross-pLatform quantum Information reconciliation experimental tool. CLIP is written in the C++ language to run at various platforms(including Linux and Windows, etc.), and it works in a distributed paradigm to enhance the experimental performance. We conducted numerous experiments on Quantum LDPC codes and evaluate the performance using our CLIP tool. Experimental results show that our LDPC platform is very powerful on the research of Information reconciliation.