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Semi-quantum secure direct communication against collective-dephasing noise

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The idea of semi-quantum has been widely used in recent years in the design of quantum cryptographic schemes. It allows certain participants in quantum protocols to remain classical and execute quantum information processing tasks by using as few quantum resources as possible. In this paper, we propose a fault-tolerant semi-quantum secure direct communication (SQSDC) scheme to resist collective-dephasing noise in quantum channels. In the proposed scheme, the message sender uses logical qubits to transfer the message to the classical message receiver, who can either measure under the Z-basis or reflect the qubits he received undisturbed. In addition, according to the security analysis and discussions, the proposed scheme is robust and fault-tolerant against collective-dephasing noise.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61872245), Shenzhen Science and Technology Program (JCYJ20210324100813034, JCYJ20190809152003992, JCYJ20180305123639326), Shenzhen Polytechnic Research Foundation (6022310031K).

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  1. College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China

    Ping Wang & Xiaohong Chen

  2. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Shenzhen, 518060, China

    Ping Wang

  3. Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Zhiwei Sun

  4. School of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen PolyTechnic, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Zhiwei Sun

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Wang, P., Chen, X. & Sun, Z. Semi-quantum secure direct communication against collective-dephasing noise. Quantum Inf Process 21, 352 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-022-03702-7

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