To solve the problems of updating sub-secrets or secrets as well as adding or deleting agents in the quantum secret sharing protocol, we propose a two-particle transform of Bell states, and consequently present a nove...To solve the problems of updating sub-secrets or secrets as well as adding or deleting agents in the quantum secret sharing protocol, we propose a two-particle transform of Bell states, and consequently present a novel dynamic quantum secret sharing protocol. The new protocol can not only resist some typical attacks, but also be more efficient than the existing protocols. Furthermore, we take advantage of the protocol to establish the dynamic secret sharing of a quantum state protocol for two-particle maximum entangled states.展开更多
Using entanglement swapping of high-level Bell states, we first derive a covert layer between the secret message and the possible output results of the entanglement swapping between any two generalized Bell states, an...Using entanglement swapping of high-level Bell states, we first derive a covert layer between the secret message and the possible output results of the entanglement swapping between any two generalized Bell states, and then propose a novel high-efficiency quantum information hiding protocol based on the covert layer. In the proposed scheme, a covert channel can be built up under the cover of a high-level quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) channel for securely transmitting secret messages without consuming any auxiliary quantum state or any extra communication resource. It is shown that this protocol not only has a high embedding efficiency but also achieves a good imperceptibility as well as a high security.展开更多
This study proposes two novel fault tolerant deterministic secure quantum communication (DSQC) schemes resistant to collective noise using logical Bell states. Either DSQC scheme is constructed based on a new coding...This study proposes two novel fault tolerant deterministic secure quantum communication (DSQC) schemes resistant to collective noise using logical Bell states. Either DSQC scheme is constructed based on a new coding function, which is designed by exploiting the property of the corresponding logical Bell states immune to collective-dephasing noise and collective-rotation noise, respectively. The secret message can be encoded by two simple unitary operations and decoded by merely performing Bell measurements, which can make the proposed scheme more convenient in practical applications. Moreover, the strategy of one-step quanta transmission, together with the technique of decoy logical qubits checking not only reduces the influence of other noise existing in a quantum channel, but also guarantees the security of the communication between two legitimate users. The final analysis shows that the proposed schemes are feasible and robust against various well-known attacks over the collective noise channel.展开更多
How to establish a secure and efficient quantum network coding algorithm isone of important research topics of quantum secure communications. Based on thebutterfly network model and the characteristics of easy prepara...How to establish a secure and efficient quantum network coding algorithm isone of important research topics of quantum secure communications. Based on thebutterfly network model and the characteristics of easy preparation of Bell states, a novelanti-noise quantum network coding protocol is proposed in this paper. The new protocolencodes and transmits classical information by virtue of Bell states. It can guarantee thetransparency of the intermediate nodes during information, so that the eavesdropper Evedisables to get any information even if he intercepts the transmitted quantum states. Inview of the inevitability of quantum noise in quantum channel used, this paper analyzesthe influence of four kinds of noises on the new protocol in detail further, and verifies theefficiency of the protocol under different noise by mathematical calculation and analysis.In addition, based on the detailed mathematical analysis, the protocol has functioned wellnot only on improving the efficiency of information transmission, throughput and linkutilization in the quantum network, but also on enhancing reliability and antieavesdroppingattacks.展开更多
We propose a scheme for generating Bell states involving two SQUID-based charge qubits by coupling themto a nanomechanical resonator.We also show that it is possible to implement a two-qubit logic gate between the two...We propose a scheme for generating Bell states involving two SQUID-based charge qubits by coupling themto a nanomechanical resonator.We also show that it is possible to implement a two-qubit logic gate between the twocharge qubits by choosing carefully the interaction time.展开更多
This paper proves that it is impossible to identify orthogonally time-separated Bell states. If two qubits of a Bell state interact with the measurement apparatus at different time, any attempt to identify this state ...This paper proves that it is impossible to identify orthogonally time-separated Bell states. If two qubits of a Bell state interact with the measurement apparatus at different time, any attempt to identify this state will disturb it.展开更多
Quantum mechanics shows superiority than classical mechanics in many aspects and quantum entanglement plays an essential role in information processing and some computational tasks such as quantum teleportation(QT).QT...Quantum mechanics shows superiority than classical mechanics in many aspects and quantum entanglement plays an essential role in information processing and some computational tasks such as quantum teleportation(QT).QT was proposed to transmit the unknown states,in which EPR pairs,the entangled states,can be used as quantum channels.In this paper,we present two simple schemes for teleporting a product state of two arbitrary single-particle and an arbitrary two-particle pure entangled state respectively.Alice and Bob have shared an entangle state.Two Bell states are used as quantum channels.Then after Alice measuring her qubits and informing Bob her measurement results,Bob can perfectly reconstruct the original state by performing corresponding unitary operators on his qubits.It shown that a product state of two arbitrary single-particle and an arbitrary two-particle pure entangled state can be teleported perfectly,i.e.the success probabilities of our schemes are both 1.展开更多
Quantum secure direct communication(QSDC)can transmit secret messages directly from one user to another without first establishing a shared secret key,which is different from quantum key distribution.In this paper,we ...Quantum secure direct communication(QSDC)can transmit secret messages directly from one user to another without first establishing a shared secret key,which is different from quantum key distribution.In this paper,we propose a novel quantum secure direct communication protocol based on signal photons and Bell states.Before the execution of the proposed protocol,two participants Alice and Bob exchange their corresponding identity IDA and IDB through quantum key distribution and keep them secret,respectively.Then the message sender,Alice,encodes each secret message bit into two single photons(|01>or|10>)or a Bell state(1|φ^(+)>=1/√2(|0>|-|1>1>)),and composes an ordered secret message sequence.To insure the security of communication,Alice also prepares the decoy photons and inserts them into secret message sequence on the basis of the values of IDA and IDB.By the secret identity IDA and IDB,both sides of the communication can check eavesdropping and identify each other.The proposed protocol not only completes secure direct communication,but also realizes the mutual authentication.The security analysis of the proposed protocol is presented in the paper.The analysis results show that this protocol is secure against some common attacks,and no secret message leaks even if the messages are broken.Compared with the two-way QSDC protocols,the presented protocol is a one-way quantum communication protocol which has the immunity to Trojan horse attack.Furthermore,our proposed protocol can be realized without quantum memory.展开更多
We propose a new scheme for controlled quantum teleportation with Bell states in which classical keys for controllers' portion are used. We also discuss the security of the proposed scheme and show that it can satisf...We propose a new scheme for controlled quantum teleportation with Bell states in which classical keys for controllers' portion are used. We also discuss the security of the proposed scheme and show that it can satisfy the requirements for controlled quantum teleportation. The comparison between this scheme and the previous ones shows that it is more economical and efficient.展开更多
The controlled quantum key agreement(CQKA)protocol requires a controller to oversee the process of all participants negotiating a key,which can satisfy the needs of certain specific scenarios.Existing CQKA protocols a...The controlled quantum key agreement(CQKA)protocol requires a controller to oversee the process of all participants negotiating a key,which can satisfy the needs of certain specific scenarios.Existing CQKA protocols are mostly two-party or three-party,and they do not entirely meet the actual needs.To address this problem,this paper proposes new CQKA protocols based on Bell states and Bell measurements.The new CQKA protocols can be successfully implemented for any N-party,not just two-party.Furthermore,the security and efficiency analyses demonstrate that the new CQKA protocols are not only secure but also more efficient in terms of quantum bit.展开更多
A silicon quantum photonic circuit was proposed and realized for the generation and the dynamic manipulation of telecom-band frequency-degenerate polarization entangled Bell states.Frequency degenerate biphoton states...A silicon quantum photonic circuit was proposed and realized for the generation and the dynamic manipulation of telecom-band frequency-degenerate polarization entangled Bell states.Frequency degenerate biphoton states were generated in four silicon waveguides by spontaneous four wave mixing.They were transformed to polar-ization entangled Bell states through on-chip quantum interference and quantum superposition,and then coupled to optical fibers.The property of polarization entanglement in generated photon pairs was demonstrated by two-photon interference under two non-orthogonal polarization bases.The output state could be dynamically switched between two Bell states,which was demonstrated by the simplified Bell state measurement.The experiment results indicated that the manipulation speed supported a modulation rate of several tens kHz,showing its potential on applications of quantum communication and quantum information processing requiring Bell state encoding and dynamic control.展开更多
Hyperentangled Bell states analysis(HBSA)is an essential building block for certain hyper-parallel quantum information processing.We propose a complete and deterministic HBSA scheme encoded in spatial and polarization...Hyperentangled Bell states analysis(HBSA)is an essential building block for certain hyper-parallel quantum information processing.We propose a complete and deterministic HBSA scheme encoded in spatial and polarization degrees of freedom(DOFs)of two-photon system assisted by a fixed frequency-based entanglement and a time interval DOF.The parity information the spatial-based and polarization-based hyper-entanglement can be distinguished by the distinct time intervals of the photon pairs,and the phase information can be distinguished by the detection signature.Compared with previous schemes,the number of the auxiliary entanglements is reduced from two to one by introducing time interval DOF.Moreover,the additional frequency and time interval DOFs suffer less from the collective channel noise.展开更多
Private comparison is the basis of many encryption technologies,and several related Quantum Private Comparison(QPC)protocols have been published in recent years.In these existing protocols,secret information is encode...Private comparison is the basis of many encryption technologies,and several related Quantum Private Comparison(QPC)protocols have been published in recent years.In these existing protocols,secret information is encoded by using conjugate coding or orthogonal states,and all users are quantum participants.In this paper,a novel semi-quantum private comparison scheme is proposed,which employs Bell entangled states as quantum resources.Two semi-quantum participants compare the equivalence of their private information with the help of a semi-honest third party(TP).Compared with the previous classical protocols,these two semi-quantum users can only make some particular action,such as to measure,prepare and reflect quantum qubits only in the classical basis fj0i;j1ig,and TP needs to perform Bell basis measurement on reflecting qubits to obtain the results of the comparison.Further,analysis results show that this scheme can avoid outside and participant attacks and its’qubit efficiency is better than the other two protocols mentioned in the paper.展开更多
In cryptography,oblivious transfer(OT)is an important multiparty cryptographic primitive and protocol,that is suitable for many upperlayer applications,such as secure computation,remote coin-flipping,electrical contra...In cryptography,oblivious transfer(OT)is an important multiparty cryptographic primitive and protocol,that is suitable for many upperlayer applications,such as secure computation,remote coin-flipping,electrical contract signing and exchanging secrets simultaneously.However,some nogo theorems have been established,indicating that one-out-of-two quantum oblivious transfer(QOT)protocols with unconditional security are impossible.Fortunately,some one-out-of-two QOT protocols using the concept of Crepeau’s reduction have been demonstrated not to conform to Lo’s no-go theorem,but these protocols require more quantum resources to generate classical keys using all-or-nothing QOT to construct one-out-of-two QOT.This paper proposes a novel and efficient one-out-of-two QOT which uses quantum resources directly instead of wasting unnecessary resources to generate classical keys.The proposed protocol is not covered by Lo’s no-go theorem,and it is able to check the sender’s loyalty and avoid the attack from the receiver.Moreover,the entangled state of the proposed protocol is reusable,so it can provide more services for the participants when necessary.Compared with otherQOT protocols,the proposed protocol is more secure,efficient,and flexible,which not only can prevent external and internal attacks,but also reduce the required resources and resource distribution time.展开更多
A general scheme for controlled teleportation of an arbitrary multi-qudit state with d-dimensional Greenberger- Horne--Zeilinger (GHZ) states is proposed. For an arbitrary m-qudit state, the sender Alice performs m ...A general scheme for controlled teleportation of an arbitrary multi-qudit state with d-dimensional Greenberger- Horne--Zeilinger (GHZ) states is proposed. For an arbitrary m-qudit state, the sender Alice performs m generalized Bell-state projective measurements on her 2m qudits and the controllers need only take some single-particle measurements. The receiver Charlie can reconstruct the unknown m-qudit state by performing some single-qudit unitary operations on her particles if she cooperates with all the controllers. As the quantum channel is a sequence of maximally entangled GHZ states, the intrinsic efticiency for qudits in this scheme approaches 100% in principle.展开更多
In the paper [2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 050306], Yang et al. put forward a novel three-party quantum secret sharing protocol of secure direct communication based on x-type entangled states, they claimed that the scheme is...In the paper [2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 050306], Yang et al. put forward a novel three-party quantum secret sharing protocol of secure direct communication based on x-type entangled states, they claimed that the scheme is secure. However, in this paper, we study the security of the protocol and find that it is insecure. Applying intercept and resend attack, the agent Bob can obtain Alice's secret without the help from the other agent Charlie. In the end, we give our effective modification for its improvement.展开更多
This paper proposes a protocol for multi-party quantum secret sharing utilizing four non-orthogonal two-particle entangled states following some ideas in the schemes proposed by Liu et al. (2006 Chin. Phys. Lett. 23 ...This paper proposes a protocol for multi-party quantum secret sharing utilizing four non-orthogonal two-particle entangled states following some ideas in the schemes proposed by Liu et al. (2006 Chin. Phys. Lett. 23 3148) and Zhang et al. (2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 2149) respectively. The theoretical efficiency for qubits of the new protocol is improved from 50% to approaching 100%. All the entangled states can be used for generating the private key except those used for the eavesdropping check. The validity of a probable attack called opaque cheat attack to this kind of protocols is considered in the paper for the first time.展开更多
This work concentrates on simultaneous move non-cooperating quantum games. Part of it is evidently not new, but it is included for the sake self consistence, as it is devoted to introduction of the mathematical and ph...This work concentrates on simultaneous move non-cooperating quantum games. Part of it is evidently not new, but it is included for the sake self consistence, as it is devoted to introduction of the mathematical and physical grounds of the pertinent topics, and the way in which a simple classical game is modified to become a quantum game (a procedure referred to as a quantization of a classical game). The connection between game theory and information science is briefly stressed, and the role of quantum entanglement (that plays a central role in the theory of quantum games), is exposed. Armed with these tools, we investigate some basic concepts like the existence (or absence) of a pure strategy and mixed strategy Nash equilibrium and its relation with the degree of entanglement. The main results of this work are as follows: 1) Construction of a numerical algorithm based on the method of best response functions, designed to search for pure strategy Nash equilibrium in quantum games. The formalism is based on the discretization of a continuous variable into a mesh of points, and can be applied to quantum games that are built upon two-players two-strategies classical games, based on the method of best response functions. 2) Application of this algorithm to study the question of how the existence of pure strategy Nash equilibrium is related to the degree of entanglement (specified by a continuous parameter γ ). It is shown that when the classical game G<sub>C</sub> has a pure strategy Nash equilibrium that is not Pareto efficient, then the quantum game G<sub>Q</sub> with maximal entanglement (γ = π/2) has no pure strategy Nash equilibrium. By studying a non-symmetric prisoner dilemma game, it is found that there is a critical value 0γ<sub>c</sub> such that for γγ<sub>c</sub> there is a pure strategy Nash equilibrium and for γ≥γ<sub>c </sub>there is no pure strategy Nash equilibrium. The behavior of the two payoffs as function of γ starts at that of the classical ones at (D, D) and approaches the cooperative classical ones at (C, C) (C = confess, D = don’t confess). 3) We then study Bayesian quantum games and show that under certain conditions, there is a pure strategy Nash equilibrium in such games even when entanglement is maximal. 4) We define the basic ingredients of a quantum game based on a two-player three strategies classical game. This requires the introduction of trits (instead of bits) and quantum trits (instead of quantum bits). It is proved that in this quantum game, there is no classical commensurability in the sense that the classical strategies are not obtained as a special case of the quantum strategies.展开更多
Quantum multi-signature has attracted extensive attention since it was put forward.Beside its own improvement,related research is often combined with other quantum signature.However,this type of quantum signature has ...Quantum multi-signature has attracted extensive attention since it was put forward.Beside its own improvement,related research is often combined with other quantum signature.However,this type of quantum signature has one thing in common,that is,the generation and verification of signature depend heavily on the shared classical secret key.In order to increase the reliability of signature,the homomorphic aggregation technique is applied to quantum multi-signature,and then we propose a quantum homomorphic multi-signature protocol.Unlike previous quantum multi-signature protocols,this protocol utilizes homomorphic properties to complete signature generation and verification.In the signature generation phase,entanglement swapping is introduced,so that the individual signatures of multiple users are aggregated into a new multi-signature.The original quantum state is signed by the shared secret key to realize the verification of the signature in the verification phase.The signature process satisfies the homomorphic property,which can improve the reliability of the signature.展开更多
We present an implementation of the positive operator valued measure (POVM). By using this POVM, one can realize the probabilistic teleportation of an unknown two-particle state.
基金Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2013CB338002)
文摘To solve the problems of updating sub-secrets or secrets as well as adding or deleting agents in the quantum secret sharing protocol, we propose a two-particle transform of Bell states, and consequently present a novel dynamic quantum secret sharing protocol. The new protocol can not only resist some typical attacks, but also be more efficient than the existing protocols. Furthermore, we take advantage of the protocol to establish the dynamic secret sharing of a quantum state protocol for two-particle maximum entangled states.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61303199,61272514,61170272,61121061,and 61411146001)the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.ZR2013FM025,ZR2013FQ001,and ZR2014FM003)+4 种基金the Shandong Provincial Outstanding Research Award Fund for Young Scientists of China(Grant Nos.BS2013DX010 and BS2014DX007)the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Universities,China(Grant No.NCET-13-0681)the National Development Foundation for Cryptological Research,China(Grant No.MMJJ201401012)the Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation,China(Grant No.131067)the Shandong Academy of Sciences Youth Fund Project,China(Grant No.2013QN007)
文摘Using entanglement swapping of high-level Bell states, we first derive a covert layer between the secret message and the possible output results of the entanglement swapping between any two generalized Bell states, and then propose a novel high-efficiency quantum information hiding protocol based on the covert layer. In the proposed scheme, a covert channel can be built up under the cover of a high-level quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) channel for securely transmitting secret messages without consuming any auxiliary quantum state or any extra communication resource. It is shown that this protocol not only has a high embedding efficiency but also achieves a good imperceptibility as well as a high security.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61272501,61272514,61170272,61472048,61402058,61121061,and 61411146001)the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China(Grant No.NCET-13-0681)+4 种基金the National Development Foundation for Cryptological Research(Grant No.MMJJ201401012)the Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation(Grant No.131067)the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing(Grant Nos.4132056 and 4152038)the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China(Grant No.2014M561826)the National Key Basic Research Program,China(Grant No.2012CB315905)
文摘This study proposes two novel fault tolerant deterministic secure quantum communication (DSQC) schemes resistant to collective noise using logical Bell states. Either DSQC scheme is constructed based on a new coding function, which is designed by exploiting the property of the corresponding logical Bell states immune to collective-dephasing noise and collective-rotation noise, respectively. The secret message can be encoded by two simple unitary operations and decoded by merely performing Bell measurements, which can make the proposed scheme more convenient in practical applications. Moreover, the strategy of one-step quanta transmission, together with the technique of decoy logical qubits checking not only reduces the influence of other noise existing in a quantum channel, but also guarantees the security of the communication between two legitimate users. The final analysis shows that the proposed schemes are feasible and robust against various well-known attacks over the collective noise channel.
文摘How to establish a secure and efficient quantum network coding algorithm isone of important research topics of quantum secure communications. Based on thebutterfly network model and the characteristics of easy preparation of Bell states, a novelanti-noise quantum network coding protocol is proposed in this paper. The new protocolencodes and transmits classical information by virtue of Bell states. It can guarantee thetransparency of the intermediate nodes during information, so that the eavesdropper Evedisables to get any information even if he intercepts the transmitted quantum states. Inview of the inevitability of quantum noise in quantum channel used, this paper analyzesthe influence of four kinds of noises on the new protocol in detail further, and verifies theefficiency of the protocol under different noise by mathematical calculation and analysis.In addition, based on the detailed mathematical analysis, the protocol has functioned wellnot only on improving the efficiency of information transmission, throughput and linkutilization in the quantum network, but also on enhancing reliability and antieavesdroppingattacks.
基金The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 10325523the National Fundamental Research Program of China under Grant No. 2001CB309310the Scientific Research Fund of the Education Department of Hunan Province under Grant No. 06C354
文摘We propose a scheme for generating Bell states involving two SQUID-based charge qubits by coupling themto a nanomechanical resonator.We also show that it is possible to implement a two-qubit logic gate between the twocharge qubits by choosing carefully the interaction time.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10504039)the Youth Chenguang Project of Science and Technology of Wuhan City of China
文摘This paper proves that it is impossible to identify orthogonally time-separated Bell states. If two qubits of a Bell state interact with the measurement apparatus at different time, any attempt to identify this state will disturb it.
基金The work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61672014)the National Cryptography Development Fund(Grant No.MMJJ20180109)+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(Grant No.2016A030313090)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
文摘Quantum mechanics shows superiority than classical mechanics in many aspects and quantum entanglement plays an essential role in information processing and some computational tasks such as quantum teleportation(QT).QT was proposed to transmit the unknown states,in which EPR pairs,the entangled states,can be used as quantum channels.In this paper,we present two simple schemes for teleporting a product state of two arbitrary single-particle and an arbitrary two-particle pure entangled state respectively.Alice and Bob have shared an entangle state.Two Bell states are used as quantum channels.Then after Alice measuring her qubits and informing Bob her measurement results,Bob can perfectly reconstruct the original state by performing corresponding unitary operators on his qubits.It shown that a product state of two arbitrary single-particle and an arbitrary two-particle pure entangled state can be teleported perfectly,i.e.the success probabilities of our schemes are both 1.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61572086,61402058)Major Project of Education Department in Sichuan(Grant No.18ZA0109)+5 种基金Planning project of Sichuan Network Culture Research Center(Grant No.WLWH18-22)Key Research and Development Project of Sichuan Province(No.20ZDYF2324,No.2019ZYD027,No.2018TJPT0012)Innovation Team of Quantum Security Communication of Sichuan Province(No.17TD0009)Academic and Technical Leaders Training Funding Support Projects of Sichuan Province(No.2016120080102643)Application Foundation Project of Sichuan Province(No.2017JY0168)Science and Technology Support Project of Sichuan Province(No.2018GZ0204,No.2016FZ0112).
文摘Quantum secure direct communication(QSDC)can transmit secret messages directly from one user to another without first establishing a shared secret key,which is different from quantum key distribution.In this paper,we propose a novel quantum secure direct communication protocol based on signal photons and Bell states.Before the execution of the proposed protocol,two participants Alice and Bob exchange their corresponding identity IDA and IDB through quantum key distribution and keep them secret,respectively.Then the message sender,Alice,encodes each secret message bit into two single photons(|01>or|10>)or a Bell state(1|φ^(+)>=1/√2(|0>|-|1>1>)),and composes an ordered secret message sequence.To insure the security of communication,Alice also prepares the decoy photons and inserts them into secret message sequence on the basis of the values of IDA and IDB.By the secret identity IDA and IDB,both sides of the communication can check eavesdropping and identify each other.The proposed protocol not only completes secure direct communication,but also realizes the mutual authentication.The security analysis of the proposed protocol is presented in the paper.The analysis results show that this protocol is secure against some common attacks,and no secret message leaks even if the messages are broken.Compared with the two-way QSDC protocols,the presented protocol is a one-way quantum communication protocol which has the immunity to Trojan horse attack.Furthermore,our proposed protocol can be realized without quantum memory.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60873191,60903152,61003286 and 60821001)the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education,China (Grant Nos. 200800131016 and 20090005110010)+2 种基金the Beijing Nova Program,China (Grant No. 2008B51)the Key Project of the Chinese Ministry of Education (Grant No. 109014)the Natural Science Foundation of Educational Bureau of Henan Province,China (Grant No. 2010B120008)
文摘We propose a new scheme for controlled quantum teleportation with Bell states in which classical keys for controllers' portion are used. We also discuss the security of the proposed scheme and show that it can satisfy the requirements for controlled quantum teleportation. The comparison between this scheme and the previous ones shows that it is more economical and efficient.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61802302)the Basic Research Project of Natural Science of Shaanxi Province(2021JM-462)
文摘The controlled quantum key agreement(CQKA)protocol requires a controller to oversee the process of all participants negotiating a key,which can satisfy the needs of certain specific scenarios.Existing CQKA protocols are mostly two-party or three-party,and they do not entirely meet the actual needs.To address this problem,this paper proposes new CQKA protocols based on Bell states and Bell measurements.The new CQKA protocols can be successfully implemented for any N-party,not just two-party.Furthermore,the security and efficiency analyses demonstrate that the new CQKA protocols are not only secure but also more efficient in terms of quantum bit.
基金National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFA0303704)Natural Science Foundation of Beijing(Z180012)+2 种基金National Natural Science Founda-tion of China(61875101,91750206)Beijing Academy of Quantum Informa-tion Science(Y18G26)Tsinghua Initiative Scientific Research Program.
文摘A silicon quantum photonic circuit was proposed and realized for the generation and the dynamic manipulation of telecom-band frequency-degenerate polarization entangled Bell states.Frequency degenerate biphoton states were generated in four silicon waveguides by spontaneous four wave mixing.They were transformed to polar-ization entangled Bell states through on-chip quantum interference and quantum superposition,and then coupled to optical fibers.The property of polarization entanglement in generated photon pairs was demonstrated by two-photon interference under two non-orthogonal polarization bases.The output state could be dynamically switched between two Bell states,which was demonstrated by the simplified Bell state measurement.The experiment results indicated that the manipulation speed supported a modulation rate of several tens kHz,showing its potential on applications of quantum communication and quantum information processing requiring Bell state encoding and dynamic control.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.11604012the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No.FRF-TP-19-011A3+2 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Contract 61901420the Shanxi Province Science Foundation for Youths under Contract No.201901D211235the Scientific and Technological Innovation Programs of Higher Education Institutions in Shanxi under Contract No.2019L0507。
文摘Hyperentangled Bell states analysis(HBSA)is an essential building block for certain hyper-parallel quantum information processing.We propose a complete and deterministic HBSA scheme encoded in spatial and polarization degrees of freedom(DOFs)of two-photon system assisted by a fixed frequency-based entanglement and a time interval DOF.The parity information the spatial-based and polarization-based hyper-entanglement can be distinguished by the distinct time intervals of the photon pairs,and the phase information can be distinguished by the detection signature.Compared with previous schemes,the number of the auxiliary entanglements is reduced from two to one by introducing time interval DOF.Moreover,the additional frequency and time interval DOFs suffer less from the collective channel noise.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61402058,61572086)Major Project of Education Department in Sichuan(Grant No.18ZA0109)Web Culture Project Sponsored by the Humanities and Social Science Research Base of the Sichuan Provincial Education Department(Grant No.WLWH18-22).
文摘Private comparison is the basis of many encryption technologies,and several related Quantum Private Comparison(QPC)protocols have been published in recent years.In these existing protocols,secret information is encoded by using conjugate coding or orthogonal states,and all users are quantum participants.In this paper,a novel semi-quantum private comparison scheme is proposed,which employs Bell entangled states as quantum resources.Two semi-quantum participants compare the equivalence of their private information with the help of a semi-honest third party(TP).Compared with the previous classical protocols,these two semi-quantum users can only make some particular action,such as to measure,prepare and reflect quantum qubits only in the classical basis fj0i;j1ig,and TP needs to perform Bell basis measurement on reflecting qubits to obtain the results of the comparison.Further,analysis results show that this scheme can avoid outside and participant attacks and its’qubit efficiency is better than the other two protocols mentioned in the paper.
基金supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology(MOST)in Taiwan under Grants MOST108-2638-E-002-002-MY2,MOST109-2222-E-005-002-MY3,MOST110-2627-M-002-002,MOST110-2221-E-260-014,MOST110-2222-E-006-011,MOST111-2218-E-005-007-MBK,and MOST111-2119-M-033-001supported in part by Higher Education Sprout Project,Ministry of Education to the Headquarters of University Advancement at National Cheng Kung University.
文摘In cryptography,oblivious transfer(OT)is an important multiparty cryptographic primitive and protocol,that is suitable for many upperlayer applications,such as secure computation,remote coin-flipping,electrical contract signing and exchanging secrets simultaneously.However,some nogo theorems have been established,indicating that one-out-of-two quantum oblivious transfer(QOT)protocols with unconditional security are impossible.Fortunately,some one-out-of-two QOT protocols using the concept of Crepeau’s reduction have been demonstrated not to conform to Lo’s no-go theorem,but these protocols require more quantum resources to generate classical keys using all-or-nothing QOT to construct one-out-of-two QOT.This paper proposes a novel and efficient one-out-of-two QOT which uses quantum resources directly instead of wasting unnecessary resources to generate classical keys.The proposed protocol is not covered by Lo’s no-go theorem,and it is able to check the sender’s loyalty and avoid the attack from the receiver.Moreover,the entangled state of the proposed protocol is reusable,so it can provide more services for the participants when necessary.Compared with otherQOT protocols,the proposed protocol is more secure,efficient,and flexible,which not only can prevent external and internal attacks,but also reduce the required resources and resource distribution time.
基金* Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 10604008 and 10435020, and Beijing Education Committee under Grant No XK100270454.
文摘A general scheme for controlled teleportation of an arbitrary multi-qudit state with d-dimensional Greenberger- Horne--Zeilinger (GHZ) states is proposed. For an arbitrary m-qudit state, the sender Alice performs m generalized Bell-state projective measurements on her 2m qudits and the controllers need only take some single-particle measurements. The receiver Charlie can reconstruct the unknown m-qudit state by performing some single-qudit unitary operations on her particles if she cooperates with all the controllers. As the quantum channel is a sequence of maximally entangled GHZ states, the intrinsic efticiency for qudits in this scheme approaches 100% in principle.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.60970140)
文摘In the paper [2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 050306], Yang et al. put forward a novel three-party quantum secret sharing protocol of secure direct communication based on x-type entangled states, they claimed that the scheme is secure. However, in this paper, we study the security of the protocol and find that it is insecure. Applying intercept and resend attack, the agent Bob can obtain Alice's secret without the help from the other agent Charlie. In the end, we give our effective modification for its improvement.
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文摘This paper proposes a protocol for multi-party quantum secret sharing utilizing four non-orthogonal two-particle entangled states following some ideas in the schemes proposed by Liu et al. (2006 Chin. Phys. Lett. 23 3148) and Zhang et al. (2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 2149) respectively. The theoretical efficiency for qubits of the new protocol is improved from 50% to approaching 100%. All the entangled states can be used for generating the private key except those used for the eavesdropping check. The validity of a probable attack called opaque cheat attack to this kind of protocols is considered in the paper for the first time.
文摘This work concentrates on simultaneous move non-cooperating quantum games. Part of it is evidently not new, but it is included for the sake self consistence, as it is devoted to introduction of the mathematical and physical grounds of the pertinent topics, and the way in which a simple classical game is modified to become a quantum game (a procedure referred to as a quantization of a classical game). The connection between game theory and information science is briefly stressed, and the role of quantum entanglement (that plays a central role in the theory of quantum games), is exposed. Armed with these tools, we investigate some basic concepts like the existence (or absence) of a pure strategy and mixed strategy Nash equilibrium and its relation with the degree of entanglement. The main results of this work are as follows: 1) Construction of a numerical algorithm based on the method of best response functions, designed to search for pure strategy Nash equilibrium in quantum games. The formalism is based on the discretization of a continuous variable into a mesh of points, and can be applied to quantum games that are built upon two-players two-strategies classical games, based on the method of best response functions. 2) Application of this algorithm to study the question of how the existence of pure strategy Nash equilibrium is related to the degree of entanglement (specified by a continuous parameter γ ). It is shown that when the classical game G<sub>C</sub> has a pure strategy Nash equilibrium that is not Pareto efficient, then the quantum game G<sub>Q</sub> with maximal entanglement (γ = π/2) has no pure strategy Nash equilibrium. By studying a non-symmetric prisoner dilemma game, it is found that there is a critical value 0γ<sub>c</sub> such that for γγ<sub>c</sub> there is a pure strategy Nash equilibrium and for γ≥γ<sub>c </sub>there is no pure strategy Nash equilibrium. The behavior of the two payoffs as function of γ starts at that of the classical ones at (D, D) and approaches the cooperative classical ones at (C, C) (C = confess, D = don’t confess). 3) We then study Bayesian quantum games and show that under certain conditions, there is a pure strategy Nash equilibrium in such games even when entanglement is maximal. 4) We define the basic ingredients of a quantum game based on a two-player three strategies classical game. This requires the introduction of trits (instead of bits) and quantum trits (instead of quantum bits). It is proved that in this quantum game, there is no classical commensurability in the sense that the classical strategies are not obtained as a special case of the quantum strategies.
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文摘Quantum multi-signature has attracted extensive attention since it was put forward.Beside its own improvement,related research is often combined with other quantum signature.However,this type of quantum signature has one thing in common,that is,the generation and verification of signature depend heavily on the shared classical secret key.In order to increase the reliability of signature,the homomorphic aggregation technique is applied to quantum multi-signature,and then we propose a quantum homomorphic multi-signature protocol.Unlike previous quantum multi-signature protocols,this protocol utilizes homomorphic properties to complete signature generation and verification.In the signature generation phase,entanglement swapping is introduced,so that the individual signatures of multiple users are aggregated into a new multi-signature.The original quantum state is signed by the shared secret key to realize the verification of the signature in the verification phase.The signature process satisfies the homomorphic property,which can improve the reliability of the signature.
基金Supported by theNational Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 10671054, and the Hebei Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No A2005000140.
文摘We present an implementation of the positive operator valued measure (POVM). By using this POVM, one can realize the probabilistic teleportation of an unknown two-particle state.