An efficient deterministic secure quantum communication scheme based on cluster states and identity authentication

A novel efficient deterministic secure quantum communication scheme based on four-qubit cluster states and single-photon identity authentication is proposed. In this scheme, the two authenticated users can transmit two bits of classical information per cluster state, and its efficiency of the quantum communication is 1/3, which is approximately 1.67 times that of the previous protocol presented by Wang et al [Chin. Phys. Lett. 23 （2006） 2658]. Security analysis shows the present scheme is secure against intercept-resend attack and the impersonator＇s attack. Furthermore, it is more economic with present-day techniques and easily processed by a one-way quantum computer.

Controlled Teleportation Using Four-Particle Cluster State

A controlled teleportation scheme is presented.In this scheme,quantum information of a single-qubit stateor an entangled two-qubits state is transmitted from a sender (Alice) to a receiver (Charlie) via a four-particle clusterstate under the control of the supervisor (Bob).The feature of this scheme is that the teleportation between the senderand the receiver depends on the control of the supervisor.

Teleportation of arbitrary unknown two-atom state with cluster state via thermal cavity

This paper proposes a scheme for implementing the teleportation of an arbitrary unknown two-atom state by using a cluster state of four identical 2-level atoms as quantum channel in a thermal cavity. The two distinct advantages of the present scheme are： （i） The discrimination of 16 orthonormal cluster states in the standard teleportation protocol is transformed into the discrimination of single-atom states. Consequently, the discrimination difficulty of states is degraded. （ii） The scheme is insensitive to the cavity field state and the cavity decay for the thermal cavity is only virtually excited when atoms interact with it. Thus, the scheme is more feasible.

Controlled Secure Direct Communication Protocol via the Three-Qubit Partially Entangled Set of States

In this paper,we first re-examine the previous protocol of controlled quantum secure direct communication of Zhang et al.’s scheme,which was found insecure under two kinds of attacks,fake entangled particles attack and disentanglement attack.Then,by changing the party of the preparation of cluster states and using unitary operations,we present an improved protocol which can avoid these two kinds of attacks.Moreover,the protocol is proposed using the three-qubit partially entangled set of states.It is more efficient by only using three particles rather than four or even more to transmit one bit secret information.Given our using state is much easier to prepare for multiqubit states and our protocol needs less measurement resource,it makes this protocol more convenient from an applied point of view.

Quantum computation and error correction based on continuous variable cluster states

Measurement-based quantum computation with continuous variables,which realizes computation by performing measurement and feedforward of measurement results on a large scale Gaussian cluster state,provides a feasible way to implement quantum computation.Quantum error correction is an essential procedure to protect quantum information in quantum computation and quantum communication.In this review,we briefly introduce the progress of measurement-based quantum computation and quantum error correction with continuous variables based on Gaussian cluster states.We also discuss the challenges in the fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum computation with continuous variables.

Controlled Teleportation of an Arbitrary Two-Particle State by One EPR Pair and Cluster State

A scheme for controlled teleportation of an arbitrary two-particle state using a maximally entangled EPR pair and a cluster state as the quantum channel is proposed. After receiving Alice＇s Bell state measurement results, the controller performs a joint measurement on his particles under a non-maximally entangled Bell-basis. The receiver needs to introduce an auxiliary qubit, and performs a series of appropriate unitary transformations on his particles. The original state can be teleported successfully with the probability 2 cos2θ.

Deterministic Secure Quantum Communication with Cluster State and Bell-Basis Measurements

We present a novel protocol for deterministic secure quantum communication by using the lour-qubit cluster state as quantum channel. It is shown that two legitimate users can directly transmit the secret messages based on Bellbasis measurements and classical communication. The present protocol makes use of the ideas of block transmission and decoy particle checking technique. It has a high capacity as each cluster state can carry two 5its of information, and has a high intrinsic efficieney 5ecause almost all the instances except the decoy checking particles （its numSer is negligible） are useful. Furthermore, this protocol is feasible with present-day technique.

Preparation of the four-qubit cluster states in cavity QED and the trapped-ion system

This paper proposes a simple scheme to generate a four-atom entangled cluster state in cavity quantum electrodynamics. With the assistantce of a strong classical field the cavity is only virtually excited and no quantum information will be transferred from the atoms to the cavity during the preparation for a four-atom entangled cluster state, and thus the scheme is insensitive to the cavity field states and cavity decay. Assuming that deviation of laser intensity is 0.01 and that of simultaneity for the interaction is 0.01, it shows that the fidelity of the resulting four-atom entangled cluster state is about 0.9886. The scheme can also be used to generate a four-ion entangled cluster state in a hot trapped-ion system. Assuming that deviation of laser intensity is 0.01, it shows that the fidelity of the resulting four-ion entangled cluster state is about 0.9990. Experimental feasibility for achieving this scheme is also discussed.

Two Feasible Schemes for Preparing Cluster States with Ion-Trap Setup

We present two schemes for preparing cluster states with atomic qubits in an ion-trap system. In the first scheme an auxiliary atomic level is needed. While in the second scheme an additional classical driven field is used, and the multi-ion cluster states can be generated by one step. Both the schemes are insensitive to thermal motion of the ions, all the facilities used in them are well within state of the art.

Generation of four-atom cluster states in thermal cavity and implementing remote controlled not gate

We propose an experimentally feasible scheme for preparing a four-atom cluster state in a thermal cavity. In the scheme, the cavity field is only virtually excited and the photon-number-dependent part in the effective Hamiltonian is cancelled so that the system is insensitive to the cavity decay and the thermal field. At the same time, the scheme can be generalized to prepare n-atom cluster states with the success probability 100%. In addition, using the four-atom cluster state, we also propose a simpler scheme for implementing a remote-controlled not gate （CNOT） without the Bell states measurement.

Quantum Information Splitting of an Arbitrary Three-Qubit State by Using Cluster States and Bell States

A new application of cluster states is investigated for quantum information splitting （QIS） of an arbitrary three-qubit state. In our scheme, a four-qubit cluster state and a Bell state are shared by a sender （Alice）, a controller （Charlie）, and a receiver （Bob）. Both the sender and controller only need to perform Bell-state measurements （BSMs）, the receiver can reconstruct the arbitrary three-qubit state by performing some appropriately unitary transformations on his qubits after he knows the measured results of both the sender and the controller. This QIS scheme is deterministic.

Teleportation Capability of Six-Qubit Cluster State

Recently Wei-Bo Gao et al.[Phys.Rev.Lett.104 (2010) 020501]; reported on the creation of a 4-photon6-qubit cluster state.It is shown this states can be utilized for perfect teleportation of arbitrary three qubit systemsand controlled teleportation of an arbitrary two-qubit state.Therefore, the six-qubit cluster state as quantum channelsis equivalent to that of maximally six-qubit entangled state.

Generation of multi-atom cluster states via an unconventional geometric phase shift in cavity QED

This paper proposes two schemes to generate the multi-atom cluster states. The first scheme is based on the interaction of atoms with a highly detuned cavity mode and a classical field, the second scheme is based on the interaction of atoms with a cavity mode, strongly driven by a resonant classical field.

Generation of multipartite entangled states by cavity QED

We propose the methods of generating multipartite entanglement by considering the interaction of a system of N two-level atoms in M cavities of high quality factor with a strong classical driving field. It is shown that, with the cavity detuning, the applied driving field detuning and vacuum Rabi coupling, we can produce an entangled coherent state in two single-mode cavities and generate the entangled coherent cluster states in two bimodal vacuum cavities. Tuning these parameters also allows us to acquire the anti-Jaynes-Cummings （AJC） interaction, with which we can generate the maximally two-photon entangled states, and the two-atom and the two-photon entangled cluster states.

Generation of a Four-Particle Cluster State and Perfect Teleportation of an Arbitrary Two-Particle State in an Ion-Trap System

We propose a scheme for generating a four-particle cluster state in an ion-trap system.The scheme isinsensitive to the thermal motion of the ions,and needs less operations than previous ones.With such a setup,we alsodemonstrate a procedure for perfectly teleporting an arbitrary two-particle state via a single multipartite entanglementchannel,a four-particle cluster state.

Cluster states prepared by using hot trapped ions

We propose a scheme for the preparation of one-dimensional and two-dimensional cluster states by using hot trapped ions. The scheme is based on the interaction between two ions and bichromatic radiation. The vibrational mode in our protocol is only virtually excited so that the system is insensitive to the thermal field. In addition, we only use two levels of ions as qubits and the successful probability may achieve 100%.

Controlled Teleportation of Two-Partic le Entanglement via a Cluster State

In order to teleport an unknown two-par-ticle entangled state via a cluster state, a controlled teleportation schelre is proposed. It is shown that an unknown two-particle entangled state can be successfully transmitted from the sender Alice to the receiver Bob with the help of the supervisor Charlie via the only one four-particle cluster state. The receiver can reconstruct the teleported state according to the lmasurement results of the sender and supervisor. Quantum Controlled-NOT （CNOT） gate and POVM are used, which have been accom-plished in a quantum experiment, so it is believed that this scheme will be realized by experirnent. By analysis, the success probability of the proposed scheme reaches 1.0.

Scheme for generating a cluster-type entangled squeezed vacuum state via cavity QED

A scheme is proposed to generate an N-qubit cluster-type entangled squeezed vacuum state （CTESVS） based on the two-photon interaction between a two-level atomand the cavity fields with the cavity QED system. The CTESVS in N separate cavities can be effectively obtained after performing a simple one-qubit measurement on the atom. The influence of cavity decay on the CTESVS is also discussed.

Efficient three-step entanglement concentration for an arbitrary four-photon cluster state

We propose an entanglement concentration protocol to concentrate an arbitrary partially-entangled four-photon cluster state.As a pioneering three-step entanglement concentration scheme,our protocol only needs a single-photon resource to assist the concentration in each step,which makes this protocol more economical.With the help of the linear optical elements and weak cross-Kerr nonlinearity,one can obtain a maximally-entangled cluster state via local operations and classical communication.Moreover,the protocol can be iterated to obtain a higher success probability and is feasible under current experimental conditions.

Efficient scheme of quantum SWAP gate and multi-atom cluster state via cavity QED

In this paper, we propose a physical scheme to realize quantum SWAP gate by using a large-detuned single-mode cavity field and two identical Rydberg atoms. It is shown that the scheme can also be used to create multi-atom cluster state. During the interaction between atom and cavity, the cavity is only virtually excited and thus the scheme is insensitive to the cavity field states and cavity decay. With the help of our scheme it is very simple to prepare the N-atom cluster state with perfect fidelity and probability. The practical feasibility of this method is also discussed.