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Multiparty Quantum Key Agreement Based on Three-Photon Entanglement with Unidirectional Qubit Transmission
摘要： A multiparty quantum key agreement protocol based on three-photon entangled states is proposed. In this scheme, the quantum channel between all parties is that of a closed loop, in which the qubit transmission is one-way. Each party can obtain the sum of the other parties’ secret key values through the coding rules instead of extracting their private keys. The shared secret key cannot be determined by any subset of all the participants except the universal set and each party makes an equal contribution to the final key. Moreover, the security analysis shows our protocol can resist both outside attacks and inside attacks.
关键词： Quantum cryptography,Three-photon entanglement,One-way qubit transmission,Quantum key agreement
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Circular Semi-Quantum Secret Sharing Using Single Particles
摘要： Semi-quantum secret sharing (SQSS) is an important branch of semi-quantum cryptography, and di?ers from quantum secret sharing (QSS) in that not all parties are required to possess quantum capabilities. All previous SQSS protocols have three common features: (i) they adopt product states or entangled states as initial quantum resource; (ii) the particles prepared by quantum party are transmitted in a tree-type way; and (iii) they require the classical parties to possess the measurement capability. In this paper, two circular SQSS protocols with single particles are suggested, where the ?rst one requires the classical parties to possess the measurement capability while the second one does not have this requirement. Compared with the previous SQSS protocols, the proposed SQSS protocols have some distinct features: (i) they adopt single particles rather than product states or entangled states as initial quantum resource; (ii) the particles prepared by quantum party are transmitted in a circular way; and (iii) the second protocol releases the classical parties from the measurement capability. The proposed SQSS protocols are robust against some famous attacks from an eavesdropper, such as the measure-resend attack, the intercept-resend attack and the entangle-measure attack, and are feasible with present quantum technologies in reality.
关键词： semi-quantum cryptography,semi-quantum secret sharing,measurement capability,circular transmission,single particles
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Memory-assisted quantum key distribution resilient against multiple-excitation effects
摘要： Memory-assisted measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MA-MDI-QKD) has recently been proposed as a technique to improve the rate-versus-distance behavior of QKD systems by using existing, or nearly-achievable, quantum technologies. The promise is that MA-MDI-QKD would require less demanding quantum memories than the ones needed for probabilistic quantum repeaters. Nevertheless, early investigations suggest that, in order to beat the conventional memory-less QKD schemes, the quantum memories used in the MA-MDI-QKD protocols must have high bandwidth-storage products and short interaction times. Among different types of quantum memories, ensemble-based memories offer some of the required specifications, but they typically suffer from multiple excitation effects. To avoid the latter issue, in this paper, we propose two new variants of MA-MDI-QKD both relying on single-photon sources for entangling purposes. One is based on known techniques for entanglement distribution in quantum repeaters. This scheme turns out to offer no advantage even if one uses ideal single-photon sources. By finding the root cause of the problem, we then propose another setup, which can outperform single memory-less setups even if we allow for some imperfections in our single-photon sources. For such a scheme, we compare the key rate for different types of ensemble-based memories and show that certain classes of atomic ensembles can improve the rate-versus-distance behavior.
关键词： quantum cryptography,quantum networks,quantum key distribution (QKD),quantum memory,single-photon source,quantum communications
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Polarization-based plug-and-play measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution
摘要： Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) has received much attention, with the goal of overcoming all of the security loopholes caused by an imperfect detection system. We here propose a plug-and-play MDI-QKD (P&P MDI-QKD) scheme whereby an untrusted relay node, Charlie, owns a laser and sends photons to Alice and Bob. Alice (Bob) modulates the polarization of the incident photons and returns them to Charlie. Charlie uses a modified Bell state analyzer (BSA) to perform Bell state measurements (BSM). In comparison with the original version of MDI-QKD, our scheme exploits a single untrusted laser as the photon source. This makes the signal photons identical and enhances the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect. Second, because of the P&P structure, the setup can automatically eliminate the birefringence influence of the fibers, which makes the setup highly stable. Finally, our modified BSA can identify |Φ?+ and |Φ?? of four Bell states with polarization encoding but not |Ψ?+ and |Ψ??. Based on practical experimental parameters, a simulation showed that the maximum theoretical secure transmission distance could reach more 280 km.
关键词： Plug-and-play,Measurement-device-independent,Quantum cryptography,Quantum key distribution
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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[Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing] Soft Computing for Problem Solving Volume 817 (SocProS 2017, Volume 2) || Design a New Protocol and Compare with BB84 Protocol for Quantum Key Distribution
摘要： Quantum key distribution is the latest advancement in quantum cryptography. There are several QKD protocols like BB84, B92, Ekert91, COW, SARG04, out of which BB84 is the first protocol developed in 1984. In this paper, we are discussing first about the working of BB84 protocol and then proposing a new protocol which is a variation over BB84 protocol, second the design of simulation setup is discussed, and then we compared the performance of BB84 with the proposed protocol and proved it much better in case of capacity and error estimation. Object-oriented approach is used in the simulation designing for new protocol and BB84 protocol.
关键词： BB84 simulation,Quantum cryptography,QKD protocols
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Desarrollo de un simulador para el protocolo de criptografía cuántica E91 en un ambiente distribuido
摘要： The objective of this research work is the development of an application which is capable of simulating the behavior of one of the main developed protocols of quantum cryptography, the protocol E91. In order to achieve this objective, it was essential to carry out an exhaustive investigation of the main concepts, principles and theorems of quantum mechanics; as well as the study of other quantum cryptographic protocols and their development today. With all the collected information, the development of the application begun, starting with the definition of the requirements, then implementing and subsequently testing the application, which allows compiling all the work of analysis and design. The obtained results show the strengths and weaknesses of the application for the secure distribution of a quantum final key. Although this work is primarily the development of the implementation that simulates the behavior of the E91 protocol, it is essentially demonstrative.
关键词： Quantum mechanics,quantum protocol E91,RMI,quantum cryptography,E91 simulator,distributed programming
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Controller-independent quantum bidirectional communication using non-maximally entangled states
摘要： In the recent past, Mohapatra and Balakrishnan (Quantum Inf Process 16:147, 2017) proposed a controller-independent bidirectional quantum direct communication protocol using Bell states. In this work, we show the possibility of the achieving same protocol with non-maximally entangled states without compromising on the security and the ef?ciency of the protocol. We exploit the degree of entanglement as an additional security parameter. By doing so, the eavesdropper always gets detected in the initial stages of the protocol in the case of an intercept and resend attack. On the other hand, there is only 25% chance that the eavesdropper goes undetected in the initial stages of the protocol proposed by Mohapatra and Balakrishnan. Thus, the proposed protocol can be implemented with the viable physical resources.
关键词： Non-maximally entangled states,Quantum communication,Bidirectional communication,Quantum cryptography
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Source-device-independent heterodyne-based quantum random number generator at 17 Gbps
摘要： Random numbers are commonly used in many different fields, ranging from simulations in fundamental science to security applications. In some critical cases, as Bell’s tests and cryptography, the random numbers are required to be both private and to be provided at an ultra-fast rate. However, practical generators are usually considered trusted, but their security can be compromised in case of imperfections or malicious external actions. In this work we introduce an efficient protocol which guarantees security and speed in the generation. We propose a source-device-independent protocol based on generic Positive Operator Valued Measurements and then we specialize the result to heterodyne measurements. Furthermore, we experimentally implemented the protocol, reaching a secure generation rate of 17.42 Gbit/s, without the need of an initial source of randomness. The security of the protocol has been proven for general attacks in the finite key scenario.
关键词： quantum cryptography,source-device-independent,heterodyne detection,continuous variable,quantum random number generator
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Longer distance continuous variable quantum key distribution protocol with photon subtraction at the receiver
摘要： One of the limitations of continuous variable quantum key distribution is the relatively short transmission distance of secure keys. Some solutions have been proposed to overcome the limitation including reverse reconciliation, trusted noise concept, and non-Gaussian operation. In this paper, we propose a protocol using photon subtraction at the receiver, which combines the synergetic benefits of the aforementioned approaches. Using simulations, we show that the performance of the proposed protocol outperforms other conventional protocols. The results showed that an improvement in secure key distance can be obtained using a non-Gaussian operation, depending on the position where the operation is performed, similar to the trusted noise concept. Furthermore, the result implies existence of some Gaussian operations which increases security without using a beam splitter.
关键词： Continuous variable quantum key distribution,Quantum cryptography,Quantum information and processing,Non-Gaussian state
更新于2025-09-19 17:15:36
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Three-party quantum secret sharing based on <i>d</i> -dimensional Bell state
摘要： A three-party quantum secret sharing scheme is proposed, in which the dealer uses the d-dimensional Bell state to distribute the secret, the participants perform the single-particle measurements to get their shares, and the dealer performs the Bell-basis measurements to check the eavesdropping. The main merit of our scheme is that the participants only need to measure the particles in one basis. Compared to the existing schemes in which the participants need to measure the particles in two bases, our scheme will be more practical.
关键词： Quantum secret sharing,quantum cryptography.,Bell state,d-dimensional
更新于2025-09-19 17:15:36