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Three-Party Quantum Secure Direct Communication Protocol with Adaptive Capacity

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Quantum secure direct communication has significant theoretical and application value, which can safely transmit secret information without pre-sharing keys between legitimate users. Aiming at the problems of uncontrollable communication capacity and complex communication process of certain quantum secure direct communication protocols, we propose a three-party quantum secure direct communication (3P-QSDC) protocol with hyperentanglement under polarization and two spatial longitudinal momentum degrees of freedom (DOFs). The secret information of each legitimate user is encoded by using corresponding unitary operations in three degrees of freedom. Compared with previous 3P-QSDC protocols, our protocol has higher information capacity and can reasonably allocate resources to realize adaptive mutual communication of information capacity among three parties. Additionally, the overall analysis indicates that by inserting decoy photons for eavesdropping detection, the proposed protocol has better security, resisting multiple external attacks such as measure-resend and intercept-resend attacks. Our protocol is expected to realize applications with different data transmission capabilities between multiple parties in the future.

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    Yi-Hua Zhou, Ze-Song Chen, Yu-Guang Yang, Wei-Min Shi & Yang Xu

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    Yi-Hua Zhou, Ze-Song Chen, Yu-Guang Yang, Wei-Min Shi & Yang Xu

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Zhou, YH., Chen, ZS., Yang, YG. et al. Three-Party Quantum Secure Direct Communication Protocol with Adaptive Capacity. Int J Theor Phys 61, 54 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-022-05053-6

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