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To ensure communication security, it is necessary to verify the identities of the communicators. Two semi-quantum identification protocols with single photons involving two parties, i.e., quantum Alice and classical Bob, are presented. In the first semi-quantum identification protocol, classical Bob can authenticate quantum Alice’s identity without the help of an authenticated classical channel. As for the second one, quantum Alice can verify the identity of classical Bob without the classical measurement ability. Semi-quantum identification is significant to ensure the security of semi-quantum key distribution, semi-quantum secret sharing and so on. The proposed two identification protocols against common attacks can be employed in several existing semi-quantum key distribution protocols based on single photons to resist the man-in-the-middle attack.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61871205, 61561033 and 61462061), the China Scholarship Council (Grant No. 201606825042), the Department of Human Resources and Social security of Jiangxi Province, the Major Discipline Academic and Technical Leader Training Plan Project of Jiangxi Province (Grant No. 20162BCB22011), and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (Grant No. 20171BAB202002).

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  1. Department of Electronic Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330031, China

    Nan-Run Zhou, Kong-Ni Zhu & Li-Hua Gong

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 15261, USA

    Nan-Run Zhou

  3. SeeleTech Corporation, San Francisco, 94107, USA

    Wei Bi

  4. Zsbatech Corporation, Beijing, 100088, China

    Wei Bi

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Zhou, NR., Zhu, KN., Bi, W. et al. Semi-quantum identification. Quantum Inf Process 18, 197 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-019-2308-4

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