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The authentication bugs of SIM cards in Global System for Mobile (GSM) have led us to write the new protocols for these networks using the principles of quantum cryptography. We provide two protocols for detecting and removing a copied SIM card. The first protocol uses the three-particle entangled source and the quantum channel when the original SIM card and its copy login into the mobile network. The second protocol uses quantum memory embedded in the SIM. These two protocols can help us to authenticate the duplicated SIMs in the next generation of mobile networks.

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This manuscript has no associated data, or the data will not be deposited. [Authors’ comment: This article does not contain any deposited data. Because the proposed protocols give us an overview of the removal of fake SIM cards by telecommunications networks.]

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge support from their respective budget, Azad Islamic University, Ahvaz Branch, Ahvaz. The authors also thank the reviewers for a thorough reading of our manuscript and constructive suggestions. Also, we have special thanks to Prof. P. S. Joag as a great teacher.

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  1. Department of Physics, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

    B. Lari & M. Hossientabar

  2. Department of Physics, Khuzestan Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

    M. Hossientabar

  3. Faculty of Physics, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran

    H. Hassanabadi

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All the work, including conceptualization, methodology, writing, investigation, writing—reviewing, and editing, has been done by three of the authors of the present paper.

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Lari, B., Hossientabar, M. & Hassanabadi, H. Security on quantum authentication. Eur. Phys. J. D 75, 269 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-021-00279-1

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