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Quantum Private Communication with an Anonymous Sender

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We propose a new quantum private communication protocol, in which the anonymity of the sender and the privacy of the quantum information are perfectly protected except with exponentially small probability. Furthermore, this protocol uses single particles to construct anonymous entanglement instead of multipartite entangled states, and thus it reduces quantum resources compared with the previous work.

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We are grateful to the anonymous referees for helpful comments. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61152002, 61202317), the Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Information Security (Grant No. 01-04-2), the Young Key Teacher Foundation of Henan Province (Grant No. 2012GGJS-157), and the Natural Science Foundation of the Education Bureau of Henan Province of China (Grant No. 2010B120008).

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  2. State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Xiao-Qiu Cai

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Cai, XQ., Niu, HF. Quantum Private Communication with an Anonymous Sender. Int J Theor Phys 52, 411–419 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-012-1346-9

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