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Efficient quantum state transmission via perfect quantum network coding

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Quantum network coding with the assistance of auxiliary resources can achieve perfect transmission of the quantum state. This paper suggests a novel perfect network coding scheme to efficiently solve the quantum k-pair problem, in which only a few assisting resources are introduced. Specifically, only one pair of maximally entangled state needs to be pre-shared between two intermediate nodes, and only O(k) of classical information is transmitted though the network. Moreover, the classical communication used in our protocol does not cause transmission congestion, providing better adaptability to large-scale quantum k-pair networks. Through relevant analyses and comparisons, we demonstrate that our proposed scheme saves resources and has good application value, thereby showing its high efficiency. Furthermore, the proposed scheme achieves 1-max flow quantum communication, and the achievable rate region result is extended from its counterpart over the butterfly network.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61671087, 61272514, 61170272, 61003287, 61373131), the Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation (Grant No. 131067), and the Major Science and Technology Support Program of Guizhou Province (Grant No. 20183001).

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  1. Information Security Center, State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    Zhen-Zhen Li, Gang Xu, Xiu-Bo Chen, Xin-Xin Niu & Yi-Xian Yang

  2. Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Zhiguo Qu

  3. Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Public Big Data, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China

    Xiu-Bo Chen, Xin-Xin Niu & Yi-Xian Yang

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Li, ZZ., Xu, G., Chen, XB. et al. Efficient quantum state transmission via perfect quantum network coding. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 62, 12501 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-018-9592-9

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