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Quantum dialogue protocols immune to collective noise

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This work proposes two quantum dialogue protocols, each of which is robust against one of the following two kinds of collective noise: collective-dephasing noise and collective-rotation noise. Both quantum dialogue protocols are constructed from four-qubit DF states that consist of two Bell states. The receiver simply performs two Bell state measurements to obtain the secret message. Moreover, the proposed protocols are free from information leakage because some shared private quantum states are established in the new protocols to allow the legitimate users to exchange their secret messages securely.

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We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their very valuable comments, which greatly enhanced the clarity of this paper. We would also like to thank the National Science Council of Republic of China, for the financial support of this research under Contract No. NSC 100-2221-E-006-152-MY3.

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Yang, CW., Hwang, T. Quantum dialogue protocols immune to collective noise. Quantum Inf Process 12, 2131–2142 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-012-0514-4

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