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We characterize the complete set of protocols that may be used to securely encrypt n quantum bits using secret and random classical bits. In addition to the application of such quantum encryption protocols to quantum data security, our…
A scheme is proposed which stores classical data in 4-state quantum registers. It can achieve the following goal: the classical data can always be read unambiguously, while the quantum registers cannot be copied. Therefore the data provider…
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