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High-capacity measurement-device-independent quantum secure direct communication

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As an important branch of quantum communication, quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) can directly transmit secure information between two communication parties without keys. Measurement-device-independent quantum secure direct communication (MDI–QSDC) is immune to all the attacks at detector’s side and thus can eliminate the security loopholes associated with measurement devices. Existing MDI–QSDC protocols encode secure information in only one degree of freedom (DOF) of photons. In this paper, we propose a high-capacity MDI–QSDC protocol by encoding secure information in photons’ polarization and spatial-mode DOFs. With hyper-encoding in two DOFs, we can double photons’ channel capacity and effectively increase MDI–QSDC’s communication efficiency. Moreover, for each encoded qudit, the states in two DOFs are totally independent. If a detection failure or error occurs on one DOF, the state in the other DOF can still be used to transmit secure information. This hyper-encoding MDI–QSDC may have potential applications in future quantum communication.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11974189, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No. 2018M642293, the open research fund of the Key Lab of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Ministry of Education under Grant No. JZNY201908, and the Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province under No. KYCX18\(_{-}\)0914.

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    Xu-Dong Wu, Wei Zhong & Yu-Bo Sheng

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    Xu-Dong Wu, Wei Zhong & Yu-Bo Sheng

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Wu, XD., Zhou, L., Zhong, W. et al. High-capacity measurement-device-independent quantum secure direct communication. Quantum Inf Process 19, 354 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-020-02864-6

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