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Quantum network communication: a discrete-time quantum-walk approach

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We study the problem of quantum multi-unicast communication over the butterfly network in a quantum-walk architecture, where multiple arbitrary single-qubit states are transmitted simultaneously between multiple source-sink pairs. Here, by introducing quantum walks, we demonstrate a quantum multi-unicast communication scheme over the butterfly network and the inverted crown network, respectively, where the arbitrary single-qubit states can be efficiently transferred with both the probability and the state fidelity one. The presented result concerns only the butterfly network and the inverted crown network, but our techniques can be applied to a more general graph. It paves a way to combine quantum computation and quantum network communication.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61572053, 61671087, U1636106, 61602019, 61472048, 61402148), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 4162005), and Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (Grant No. F2015205114).

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  1. Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China

    Yuguang Yang, Jiajie Yang, Yihua Zhou & Weimin Shi

  2. State Key Laboratory of Information Security (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Beijing, 100093, China

    Yuguang Yang

  3. Information Security Center, State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    Xiubo Chen

  4. School of Computer, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    Jian Li

  5. College of Mathematics and Information Science, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050024, China

    Huijuan Zuo

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Yang, Y., Yang, J., Zhou, Y. et al. Quantum network communication: a discrete-time quantum-walk approach. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 61, 042501 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-017-9190-0

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