Which risk increases when entangled photons decohere within a quantum key distribution (QKD) system?

💡 Explanation

Decoherence disrupts the entanglement, causing a correlation breakdown; therefore, eavesdroppers might predict the key accurately. Because the correlations diminish directly, key secrecy is thus reduced, rather than improved detector efficiency. The mechanism involved is quantum decoherence.

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