English
Related papers

Related papers: Absolutely covert quantum communication

200 papers

Quantum cryptography is an emerging technology in which two parties may simultaneously generate shared, secret cryptographic key material using the transmission of quantum states of light. The security of these transmissions is based on the…

We present a quantum secure direct communication protocol where the channels are not maximally entangled states. The communication parties utilize decoy photons to check eavesdropping. After ensuring the security of the quantum channel, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-19 Jian Wang , Quan Zhang , Chao-jing Tang

A communication protocol with non-zero quantum capacity is found when the two communicating parts are particle detector models in (3+1)-dimensional spacetime. In particular, as detectors, we consider two harmonic oscillators interacting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-25 Alessio Lapponi , Jorma Louko , Stefano Mancini

Classical information can be completely hidden in the correlations of bipartite quantum systems. However, it is impossible to hide or mask all quantum information according to the no-hiding and no-masking theorems derived recently. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Huangjun Zhu

An important class of cryptographic applications of relativistic quantum information work as follows. B generates a random qudit and supplies it to A at point P. A is supposed to transmit it at near light speed c to to one of a number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-11 Adrian Kent , Serge Massar , Jonathan Silman

One of the applications of quantum technology is to use quantum states and measurements to communicate which offers more reliable security promises. Quantum data hiding, which gives the source party the ability of sharing data among…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Xingyao Wu , Jianxin Chen

Covert quantum communication is usually analyzed under idealized assumptions that channel parameters, such as transmissivity and background noise, are perfectly known and constant. In realistic optical links, including satellite, fiber, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Abbas Arghavani , Alessandro V. Papadopoulos , Vahid Azimi Mousolou , Giuseppe Nebbione , Shahid Raza

In this paper, we consider fundamental communication limits over a compound channel. Covert communication in the information-theoretic context has been primarily concerned with fundamental limits when the transmitter wishes to communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Mohammad Hossein Yassaee , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Security of modern classical data encryption often relies on computationally hard problems, which can be trivialized with the advent of quantum computers. A potential remedy for this is quantum communication which takes advantage of the…

Wireless communication derives its power from the simultaneous emission of signals in multiple directions. However, in the context of quantum communication, this phenomenon must be reconciled carefully with the no-cloning principle. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Robert H. Jonsson , Katja Ried , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Achim Kempf

By sending systems in specially prepared quantum states, two parties can communicate without an eavesdropper being able to listen. The technique, called quantum cryptography, enables one to verify that the state of the quantum system has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karol Horodecki , Michal Horodecki , Pawel Horodecki , Debbie Leung , Jonathan Oppenheim

A novel communication protocol based on an entangled pair of qubits is presented, allowing secure direct communication from one party to another without the need for a shared secret key. Since the information is transferred in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Kim Bostroem

Qubit-field quantum transduction provides numerous advantages to quantum computing, such as device-specific error-correcting codes, efficient scalability, and effective entanglement generation. An all-to-all connected bus of qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Eric W. Aspling

Quantum communication is at the forefront of quantum technology, enabling the development of absolutely secure encryption, distributed quantum computing, teleportation and more. Whilst quantum communication has been experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Scott E. Vinay , Pieter Kok

We show how to use decoherence-free subspaces over collective-noise quantum channels to convey classical information in perfect secrecy. We argue that codes defined over decoherence-free subspaces are codes for quantum wiretap channels in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Elloá B. Guedes , Francisco M. de Assis

We study covert communication and covert secret key generation with positive rates over quantum state-dependent channels. Specifically, we consider fully quantum state-dependent channels when the transmitter shares an entangled state with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Hassan ZivariFard , Rémi A. Chou , Xiaodong Wang

Quantum communication is developed owing to the theoretically proven security of quantum mechanics, which may become the main technique in future information security. However, most studies and implementations are limited to two or several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Xu Liu , Rong Xue , Heqing Wang , Hao Li , Xue Feng , Fang Liu , Kaiyu Cui , Zhen Wang , Lixing You , Yidong Huang , Wei Zhang

We propose a W state-based protocol for anonymously transmitting quantum messages in a quantum network. Different from the existing protocols [A. Unnikrishnan, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 240501 (2019)], the proposed protocol can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Beili Gong , Wei Cui

We study covert classical communication over a quantum multiple-access channel (MAC) with a helper. Specifically, we consider three transmitters, where one transmitter helps the other two transmitters communicate covertly with a receiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Hassan ZivariFard , Rémi A. Chou , Xiaodong Wang

Covert communication allows us to transmit messages in such a way that it is not possible to detect that the communication is occurring. This provides protection in situations where knowledge that people are talking to each other may be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Ryan Amiri