Security Analysis of Practical Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution Using a Heralded Noiseless Amplifier

The noiseless linear amplifier(NLA) can probabilistically amplify the amplitude of the coherent state while retaining the initial level of noise. It is widely proposed and discussed to enhance various CVQKD protocols. In the previous work, when analyzing the security of the NLA-based CVQKQ protocol, they usually included the impact of NLA in a set of equivalent parameters. In this article, we develop this equivalent method and propose a new one to analyze the protocol with NLA which simplifies the computational complexity. In particular, we have further considered the effect of NLA on entanglement parameter of the EPR state. Then by using our proposed method, we first obtain the secret key rate of the NLA-enhanced CVQKD system with imperfect detection. The results show that the NLA can also improve the transmission distance of CVQKD protocols with imperfect detection by equivalent 20log10g dB of losses.