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Certain quantum devices, such as half-wave plates and quarter-wave plates in quantum optics, are bidirectional, meaning that the roles of their input and output ports can be exchanged. Bidirectional devices can be used in a forward mode and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Zixuan Liu , Ming Yang , Giulio Chiribella

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

Cryptography literally means "The art & science of secret writing & sending a message between two parties in such a way that its contents cannot be understood by someone other than the intended recipient". and Quantum word is related with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 Aditya Goel

Sharing correlated random variables is a resource for a number of information theoretic tasks such as privacy amplification, simultaneous message passing, secret sharing and many more. In this article, we show that to establish such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Tamal Guha , Mir Alimuddin , Sumit Rout , Amit Mukherjee , Some Sankar Bhattacharya , Manik Banik

Quantum communication holds a promise for absolutely secure transmission of secret messages and faithful transfer of unknown quantum states. Photonic channels appear to be very attractive for physical implementation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lu-Ming Duan , Mikhail Lukin , Ignacio Cirac , Peter Zoller

We consider transmission of an (unknown) quantum state between two distant atoms via photons. Based on a quantum-optical realistic model, we define a noisy quantum channel which includes systematic errors as well as errors due to coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 S. J. van Enk , J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller

The no-masking theorem states that it is impossible to encode an arbitrary quantum state into the correlations between two subsystems so that no original information about is accessible in the marginal state of either subsystem. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Mao-Sheng Li , Kavan Modi

With the rapid development of quantum computers the currently secure cryptographic protocols may not stay that way. Quantum mechanics provides means to create an inherently secure communication channel that is protected by the laws of…

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Andrew Frigyik

We introduce the concept of furtive quantum sensing, demonstrating the possibility of concealing quantum objects from matter-waves, while maintaining their ability to interact and get excited by the impinging particles. This is obtained by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Romain Fleury , Andrea Alu

Masking information into quantum correlations is a cornerstone of many quantum information applications. While there exist the no-hiding and no-masking theorems, approximate quantum information masking (AQIM) offers a promising means of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Xiaodi Li , Xinyang Shu , Huangjun Zhu

Understanding quantum channels and the strange behavior of their capacities is a key objective of quantum information theory. Here we study a remarkably simple, low-dimensional, single-parameter family of quantum channels with exotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Felix Leditzky , Debbie Leung , Vikesh Siddhu , Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin

We study the problem of coding over a general discrete memoryless broadcast channel controlled by random parameters. The parameters are available at the transmitter in a non-causal manner and are subject to a state masking constraint on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Michael Dikshtein , Shlomo Shamai

The computational problem of distinguishing two quantum channels is central to quantum computing. It is a generalization of the well-known satisfiability problem from classical to quantum computation. This problem is shown to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Bill Rosgen

When elementary quantum systems, such as polarized photons, are used to transmit digital information, the uncertainty principle gives rise to novel cryptographic phenomena unachievable with traditional transmission media, e.g. a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Charles H. Bennett , Gilles Brassard

Quantum operations, or quantum channels cannot be inverted in general. An arbitrary state passing through a quantum channel looses its fidelity with the input. Given a quantum channel ${\cal E}$, we introduce the concept of its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Vahid Karimipour , Fabio Benatti , Roberto Floreanini

We give an example of a wide class of problems for which quantum information protocols based on multi-system entanglement can be mapped into much simpler ones involving one system. Secret sharing is a cryptographic primitive which plays a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Armin Tavakoli , Isabelle Herbauts , Marek Zukowski , Mohamed Bourennane

Quantum teleportation provides a `bodiless' way of transmitting the quantum state from one object to another, at a distant location, using a classical communication channel and a previously shared entangled state. In this paper, we present…

Covert channel techniques are used by attackers to transfer data in a way prohibited by the security policy. There are two main categories of covert channels: timing channels and storage channels. This paper introduces a new storage channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Steffen Wendzel

Many quantum mechanical experiments can be viewed as multi-round interactive protocols between known quantum circuits and an unknown quantum process. Fully quantum "coherent" access to the unknown process is known to provide an advantage in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Zane M. Rossi , Jeffery Yu , Isaac L. Chuang , Sho Sugiura

Digital signatures are widely used in modern communication to guarantee authenticity and transferability of messages, The security of currently used classical schemes relies on computational assumptions. We present a quantum signature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-06 Ryan Amiri , Petros Wallden , Adrian Kent , Erika Andersson