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Fault-Tolerant Quantum Secure Direct Communication Protocol Based On Decoherence-Free States

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In this paper, we propose a quantum secure direct communication scheme based on six-qubit decoherence-free (DF) states, which can protect communication against collective decoherence noise. With the combination of DF states and error-correcting code (ECC), it achieves a fault tolerant quantum secure direct communication to prevent collective decoherence noise, limited photon loss and other noise.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by NSFC (Grant Nos. 61300181, 61272057, 61202434, 61170270, 61100203, 61121061, and 61103210), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 4122054), Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project (Grant Nos. YETP0475, YETP0477), China scholarship council.

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

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  2. Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute, Beijing, 100070, China

    Yan-Bing Li

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA

    Yan-Bing Li, Ting-Ting Song, Wei Huang & Wei-Wei Zhan

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Li, YB., Song, TT., Huang, W. et al. Fault-Tolerant Quantum Secure Direct Communication Protocol Based On Decoherence-Free States. Int J Theor Phys 54, 589–597 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-014-2251-1

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