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Fault-tolerant asymmetric quantum dialogue protocols against collective noise

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In this paper, we propose two kinds of fault-tolerant asymmetric quantum dialogue (AQD) protocols and investigate the effect of collective noise on the proposed AQD protocols. In our work, logical qubits have been selected to build traveling blocks for constructing a decoherence-free subspace. Both communicants can encode each bit of secret message in the logical qubit with unitary logical operator. Compared with the previous quantum dialogue protocols, the proposed AQD protocols not only enable two users to transmit different amount of classical information to each other, but also can provide higher communication fidelity under the interference of collective noise. Furthermore, we will demonstrate the security of the AQD protocols against information leakage problem and Eve’s active eavesdropping attack.

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Zhang, MH., Cao, ZW. & Peng, JY. Fault-tolerant asymmetric quantum dialogue protocols against collective noise. Quantum Inf Process 17, 204 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-018-1966-y

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