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We propose a wide class of distillation schemes for multi-partite entangled states that are CSS-states. Our proposal provides not only superior efficiency, but also new insights on the connection between CSS-states and bipartite graph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-05 Kai Chen , Hoi-Kwong Lo

We consider the distinguishability of Gaussian states from the view point of continuous-variable quantum cryptography using post-selection. Specifically, we use the probability of error to distinguish between two pure coherent (squeezed)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Christian Weedbrook , Daniel J. Alton , Thomas Symul , Ping Koy Lam , Timothy C. Ralph

A secret sharing scheme is a cryptographic protocol to distribute a secret state in an encoded form among a group of players such that only authorized subsets of the players can reconstruct the secret. Classically, efficient secret sharing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-08 Pradeep Sarvepalli , Robert Raussendorf

A method to hide certain quantum states in a superposition will be proposed. Such method can be used to increase the security of a communication channel. States represent an encrypted message will disappear during data exchange. This makes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-31 Ahmed Younes

We introduce an encoding of information in the relative displacement or photon number of different optical modes. Since the loss rate to interference is insensitive to squeezing and many non-Gaussian fluctuations, such a space is relatively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Uchenna Chukwu , Mohammad-Ali Miri , Nicholas Chancellor

There has been much interest in quantum key distribution. Experimentally, quantum key distribution over 150 km of commercial Telecom fibers has been successfully performed. The crucial issue in quantum key distribution is its security.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hoi-Kwong Lo , Xiongfeng Ma , Kai Chen

Squeezing transformation as an essential component, gives rise to the possibility to perform various tasks of quantum information processing. However, the reported squeezing gate with best performance so far is a conditional realization at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Xiaocong Sun , Yajun Wang , Yuhang Tian , Qingwei Wang , Long Tian , Yaohui Zheng , Kunchi Peng

Secret sharing is a procedure for sharing a secret among a number of participants such that only the qualified subsets of participants have the ability to reconstruct the secret. Even in the presence of eavesdropping, secret sharing can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Qin Li , W. H. Chan , Dong-Yang Long

Recently, Li et al. [Phys. Rev. A, 82(2), 022303] presented two semi-quantum secret sharing (SQSS) protocols using GHZ-like states. The proposed schemes are rather practical because only the secret dealer requires to equip with advanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Jason Lin , Chun-Wei Yang , Chia-Wei Tsai , Tzonelih Hwang

Using tools from quantum information theory, we present a general theory of indistinguishability of identical bosons in experiments consisting of passive linear optics followed by particle number detection. Our results do neither rely on…

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

Randomized benchmarking (RB) is the most commonly employed protocol for the characterization of unitary operations in quantum circuits due to its reasonable experimental requirements and robustness against state preparation and measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Mirko Arienzo , Dmitry Grinko , Martin Kliesch , Markus Heinrich

In this work we address the issue of sharing a quantum secret over untrusted channels between the dealer and players. Existing methods require entanglement over a number of systems which scales with the security parameter, quickly becoming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-03 Anne Marin , Damian Markham

Quantum key distribution establishes a secret string of bits between two distant parties. Of concern in weak laser pulse schemes is the especially strong photon number splitting attack by an eavesdropper, but the decoy state method can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jim W. Harrington , J. Mark Ettinger , Richard J. Hughes , Jane E. Nordholt

We present two quantum state sharing protocols where the channels are not maximally entangled states. By properly choosing the measurement basis it is possible to achieve unity fidelity transfer of the state if the parties collaborate. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Goren Gordon , Gustavo Rigolin

This paper introduces the Symmetric Extensible Quantum Secret Sharing protocol, which is a novel quantum protocol for secret sharing. At its heart, it is an entanglement based protocol that relies on the use of maximally entangled GHZ…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Michael Ampatzis , Theodore Andronikos

Coherent one photon pulses are sent with four possible time delays with respect to a reference. Ambiguity of the photon time detection resulting from pulses overlap combined with interferometric measurement allows for secure key exchange.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thierry Debuisschert , William Boucher

Continuous-variable (CV) quantum key distribution (QKD) employs the quadratures of a bosonic mode to establish a secret key between two remote parties, and this is usually achieved via a Gaussian modulation of coherent states. The resulting…

This work shows how two parties A and B can securely share sequences of random bits at optical speeds. A and B possess true-random physical sources and exchange random bits by using a random sequence received to cipher the following one to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Geraldo A. Barbosa

We report an experimental demonstration of effective entanglement in a prepare&measure type of quantum key distribution protocol. Coherent polarization states and heterodyne measurement to characterize the transmitted quantum states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Lorenz , J. Rigas , M. Heid , U. L. Andersen , N. Lütkenhaus , G. Leuchs