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A general class of authentication schemes for arbitrary quantum messages is proposed. The class is based on the use of sets of unitary quantum operations in both transmission and reception, and on appending a quantum tag to the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Esther Perez , Marcos Curty , David J. Santos , Priscila Garcia-Fernandez

We show that a family of quantum authentication protocols introduced in [Barnum et al., FOCS 2002] can be used to construct a secure quantum channel and additionally recycle all of the secret key if the message is successfully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-24 Christopher Portmann

Secret-key distillation from quantum states and channels is a central task of interest in quantum information theory, as it facilitates private communication over a quantum network. Here, we study the task of secret-key distillation from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Vishal Singh , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum state preparation is a central primitive in many quantum algorithms, yet it is generally resource intensive, with efficient constructions known only for structured families of states. This work introduces a method for preparing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Baptiste Claudon , Alexis Lucas , Jean-Philip Piquemal , César Feniou , Julien Zylberman

We consider the secure quantum communication over a network with the presence of a malicious adversary who can eavesdrop and contaminate the states. The network consists of noiseless quantum channels with the unit capacity and the nodes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Seunghoan Song , Masahito Hayashi

Encoding in a high-dimensional Hilbert space improves noise resilience in quantum information processing. This approach, however, may result in cross-mode coupling and detection complexities, thereby reducing quantum cryptography…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Amit Kam , Kfir Sulimany , Shai Tsesses , Uzi Pereg

We derive a formal connection between quantum data hiding and quantum privacy, confirming the intuition behind the construction of bound entangled states from which secret bits can be extracted. We present three main results. First, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Matthias Christandl , Roberto Ferrara

Semi-quantum key distribution protocols are designed to allow two parties to establish a shared secret key, secure against an all-powerful adversary, even when one of the users is restricted to measuring and preparing quantum states in one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Omar Amer , Walter O. Krawec

Quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols are proven secure based on fundamental physical laws, however, the proofs consider a well-defined setting and encoding of the sent quantum signals only. Side channels, where the encoded quantum state…

In recent years Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) has emerged as the most paradigmatic example of Quantum technology allowing the realization of intrinsically secure communication links over hundreds of kilometers. Beyond its commercial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 A. Avella , G. Brida , D. Carpentras , A. Cavanna , I. P. Degiovanni , M. Genovese , M. Gramegna , P. Traina

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

We use a random search technique to find quantum gate sequences that implement perfect quantum state preparation or unitary operator synthesis with arbitrary targets. This approach is based on the recent discovery that there is a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Sahel Ashhab , Fumiki Yoshihara , Miwako Tsuji , Mitsuhisa Sato , Kouichi Semba

Secure communication is one of the key applications of quantum networks. In recent years, following the demands for identity protection in classical communication protocols, the need for anonymity has also emerged for quantum networks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Christopher Thalacker , Frederik Hahn , Jarn de Jong , Anna Pappa , Stefanie Barz

Quantum protocols including quantum key distribution and blind quantum computing often require the preparation of quantum states of known dimensions. Here, we show that, rather surprisingly, hidden multi-dimensional modulation is often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Amita Gnanapandithan , Li Qian , Hoi-Kwong Lo

A random access code (RAC), corresponding to a communication primitive with various applications in quantum information theory, is an instance of a preparation-and-measurement scenario. In this work, we consider (n,d)-RACs constituting an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Andris Ambainis , Dmitry Kravchenko , Sk Sazim , Joonwoo Bae , Ashutosh Rai

While the preparation of a general quantum state is challenging, realistic problem instances, such as those encountered in quantum chemistry and quantum machine learning-typically exhibit hierarchical amplitude structures, consisting of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Yue Wang , Xiao-Ming Zhang , Xiao Yuan , Qi Zhao

A perfect d-dimensional quantum channel can convey log d-bits of classical information by encoding messages in d-orthogonal quantum states. Alternatively, for every quantum state at the senders end, there exist d-encoding operations which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Shampa Mondal , Soumajit Das , Preeti Parashar , Tamal Guha

Recently, Chau introduced an experimentally feasible qudit-based quantum-key-distribution (QKD) scheme. In that scheme, one bit of information is phase encoded in the prepared state in a $2^n$-dimensional Hilbert space in the form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 H. F. Chau , Qinan Wang , Cardythy Wong

We present protocols for multiparty data hiding of quantum information that implement all possible threshold access structures. Closely related to secret sharing, data hiding has a more demanding security requirement: that the data remain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick Hayden , Debbie Leung , Graeme Smith

One of the remarkable features of quantum mechanics is the ability to ensure secrecy. Private states embody this effect, as they are precisely those multipartite quantum states from which two parties can produce a shared secret that cannot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-20 Joseph M. Renes , Jean-Christian Boileau