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Deterministic Secure Quantum Communication with Collective Detection Using Single Photons

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Two novel single-photon deterministic secure quantum communication (DSQC) schemes with collective detection are proposed. One is a two-party DSQC, the other is a DSQC network. In these two schemes, only single-photon source and single-photon measurements are required, which makes the schemes more feasible with present techniques. Apart from this, a detection strategy called collective detection is utilized in our schemes, in which the detection is taken only once after the whole process of particle transmission. Such detection strategy improves the efficiencies of our protocols and also reduces the cost of realization as the message sender only need to perform unitary operations in the whole communication. What’s more, the efficiencies of qubits and source capacity are both high since almost all the states can be used to transmit message except the ones used for eavesdropping check and each single photon can carry one bit of information. Finally, we prove the security of the our protocols by using the theorems on quantum operation discrimination.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by NSFC (Grant Nos. 61170270, 61100203, 60903152, 61003286, 61121061), NCET (Grant No. NCET-10-0260), SRFDP (Grant No. 20090005110010), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 4112040), Science and Technology on Communication Security Laboratory Foundation (Grant No. 9140C110101110 C1104), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Nos. BUPT2011YB01, BUPT2011RC0505, 2011PTB-00-29, 2011RCZJ15).

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    Wei Huang, Qiao-Yan Wen, Bin Liu & Fei Gao

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    Wei Huang

  3. Science and Technology on Communication Security Laboratory, P.O. Box 810, Chengdu, 610041, China

    Hui Chen

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Huang, W., Wen, QY., Liu, B. et al. Deterministic Secure Quantum Communication with Collective Detection Using Single Photons. Int J Theor Phys 51, 2787–2797 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-012-1154-2

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