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An Improved Quantum E-Payment System

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Based on the fact that there is no secure E-payment system for direct transactions between banks, an improved inter-bank quantum E-payment system has been built. By taking advantage of good entanglement properties of the four-particle Cluster state and the unique measurement rules, our system cannot only support the unconditional security of E-payment, but also guarantee the blindness of the purchase information. Besides, our system also satisfies the properties of undeniability and unforgeability.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.61402275, 61402015, 61273311), the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (Grant No.2015JM6263, 2016JM6069), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.GK201402004).

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  1. School of Science, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an, 710121, Shaanxi, China

    Shu-Cui Xie

  2. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710121, Shaanxi, China

    Xu-Feng Niu

  3. College of Mathematics and Information Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, 710119, Shaanxi, China

    Jian-Zhong Zhang

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Xie, SC., Niu, XF. & Zhang, JZ. An Improved Quantum E-Payment System. Int J Theor Phys 59, 445–453 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-019-04338-7

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