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Physical Review A

Two-way protocols for quantum cryptography with a nonmaximally entangled qubit pair

Kaoru Shimizu, Kiyoshi Tamaki, Hiroyuki Fukasaka

Published Aug 19, 2009• 35 citations
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Abstract

This paper proposes a scheme for quantum cryptography with a nonmaximally entangled qubit pair. In a two-way configuration similar to quantum super dense coding, a two-bit key can be distributed by a round trip of one particle of the qubit pair and received by an appropriate joint measurement with the other. The security of our scheme is based on the quantum-mechanical impossibility of local unitary transformation between certain nonmaximally entangled states. Although an eavesdropper, Eve, can always identify the quantum state and intercept the key, it is impossible for her to resend the state with a unity probability and the legitimate parties inevitably detect her. Our protocol is also capable to quantum secure direct communication.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.80.022323

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We present a multiparty controlled quantum secure direct communication protocol with the nonmaximal entangled state.The communication parties utilize decoy photons to check eavesdropping.The sender encodes the secret message on the different two particle states directly,controllers carry one united operation on the one of the particle sequence random,the receiver only can recover the secret message under the permission of all the controllers. It is the nonmaximal entangled channel and not easy to be influenced,the protocol is can be realized with existing technique for the two particles state is easy to prepared,all particles are used to transmit secret message,the qubit efficiency is high.
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