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Fault-tolerant authenticated quantum dialogue using logical Bell states

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Two fault-tolerant authenticated quantum dialogue protocols are proposed in this paper by employing logical Bell states as the quantum resource, which combat the collective-dephasing noise and the collective-rotation noise, respectively. The two proposed protocols each can accomplish the mutual identity authentication and the dialogue between two participants simultaneously and securely over one kind of collective noise channels. In each of two proposed protocols, the information transmitted through the classical channel is assumed to be eavesdroppable and modifiable. The key for choosing the measurement bases of sample logical qubits is pre-shared privately between two participants. The Bell state measurements rather than the four-qubit joint measurements are adopted for decoding. The two participants share the initial states of message logical Bell states with resort to the direct transmission of auxiliary logical Bell states so that the information leakage problem is avoided. The impersonation attack, the man-in-the-middle attack, the modification attack and the Trojan horse attacks from Eve all are detectable.

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The author would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions that help enhancing the quality of this paper. Funding by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61402407, 11375152) is also gratefully acknowledged.

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Ye, TY. Fault-tolerant authenticated quantum dialogue using logical Bell states. Quantum Inf Process 14, 3499–3514 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-015-1040-y

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