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Efficient Quantum Secure Direct Communication Using the Orbital Angular Momentum of Single Photons

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Quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) is to transmit information directly through quantum channels without generating secret keys. The efficiencies of QSDC rely on the capacity of qubits. Exploiting orbital angular momentum of single photons, we proposed a high-capacity one-time pad QSDC protocol. The information is encoded on the Hermite-Gauss mode and transmitted directly on the Laguerre-Gauss mode of the photon pluses. The proposed system provides a high coding space, and the proposed protocol is robust against collective-dephasing channel noise.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China through Grants (No. 11404031, No. 61205117), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2014RC0903). And the fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (BUPT), China.

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    Zhuo-Ru Jian, Guang-Sheng Jin & Tie-Jun Wang

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Jian, ZR., Jin, GS. & Wang, TJ. Efficient Quantum Secure Direct Communication Using the Orbital Angular Momentum of Single Photons. Int J Theor Phys 55, 1811–1819 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-015-2820-y

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