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High-capacity measurement-device-independent deterministic secure quantum communication

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Deterministic secure quantum communication (DSQC) is an important branch of quantum cryptography and has attracted continuous attention. However, in practical DSQC, the receiver’s detectors can be subjected to detector-side-channel attacks launched by the outside eavesdropper. Moreover, encoding the information in only one degree of freedom (DOF) of photons makes DSQC inefficient. Here, to remove all the detector side channels and increase single-photons’ channel capacity, we report the first high-capacity measurement-device-independent DSQC (HC-MDI-DSQC) protocol by using photons’ polarization-spatial-mode DOFs. This method is similar to the idea of MDI quantum key distribution. Theoretical analyses show that it is advantageous in terms of security and efficiency compared with the state-of-the-art DSQC protocols.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62071015); the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission (Project No. Z191100007119004), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 4182006), and the Guangxi Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Information Security (Grant No. GCIS201810).

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    Yu-Guang Yang, Jing-Ru Dong, Yong-Li Yang, Yi-Hua Zhou & Wei-Min Shi

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Trusted Computing, Beijing, 100124, China

    Yu-Guang Yang

  3. School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    Jian Li

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Yang, YG., Dong, JR., Yang, YL. et al. High-capacity measurement-device-independent deterministic secure quantum communication. Quantum Inf Process 20, 203 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-021-03129-6

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