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Single-Photon-Memory Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Secure Direct Communication - Part II: A Practical Protocol and its Secrecy Capacity

Single-Photon-Memory Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Secure Direct Communication - Part II: A Practical Protocol and its Secrecy Capacity
Single-Photon-Memory Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Secure Direct Communication - Part II: A Practical Protocol and its Secrecy Capacity

In Part I of this two-part letter on single-photon-memory measurement-device-independent quantum secure direct communication (SPMQC), we reviewed the fundamentals and evolution of quantum secure direct communication (QSDC). In this Part II, we propose a practical protocol and analyze its secrecy capacity. In order to eliminate the security loopholes resulting from practical detectors, the measurement-device-independent (MDI) QSDC protocol has been proposed. However, block-based transmission of quantum states is utilized in MDI-QSDC, which requires practical quantum memory that is still unavailable at the time of writing. For circumventing this impediment, we propose the SPMQC protocol for dispensing with high-performance quantum memory. The performance of the proposed protocol is characterized by simulations considering realistic experimental parameters, and the results show that it is feasible to implement SPMQC by relying on existing technology.

Quantum secure direct communication, entanglement, measurement-device-independent quantum communication, secrecy capacity
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Li, Xiang-Jie
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Pan, Dong
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Li, Xiang-Jie, Pan, Dong, Long, Gui-Lu and Hanzo, Lajos (2023) Single-Photon-Memory Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Secure Direct Communication - Part II: A Practical Protocol and its Secrecy Capacity. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 27 (4), 1060-1064. (doi:10.1109/LCOMM.2023.3247176).

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In Part I of this two-part letter on single-photon-memory measurement-device-independent quantum secure direct communication (SPMQC), we reviewed the fundamentals and evolution of quantum secure direct communication (QSDC). In this Part II, we propose a practical protocol and analyze its secrecy capacity. In order to eliminate the security loopholes resulting from practical detectors, the measurement-device-independent (MDI) QSDC protocol has been proposed. However, block-based transmission of quantum states is utilized in MDI-QSDC, which requires practical quantum memory that is still unavailable at the time of writing. For circumventing this impediment, we propose the SPMQC protocol for dispensing with high-performance quantum memory. The performance of the proposed protocol is characterized by simulations considering realistic experimental parameters, and the results show that it is feasible to implement SPMQC by relying on existing technology.

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Accepted/In Press date: 16 February 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 22 February 2023
Published date: 1 April 2023
Additional Information: Funding Information: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 11974205 and No. 12205011, the Key R&D Program of Guangdong province (2018B030325002), Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Chip (ICFC), Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program. Lajos Hanzo would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council projects EP/W016605/1 and EP/X01228X/1 as well as of the European Research Council's Advanced Fellow Grant QuantCom (Grant No. 789028). Publisher Copyright: © 1997-2012 IEEE.
Keywords: Quantum secure direct communication, entanglement, measurement-device-independent quantum communication, secrecy capacity

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Local EPrints ID: 475442
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/475442
ISSN: 2162-2337
PURE UUID: 2e566a00-5a4f-4d0b-a520-24339a5de185
ORCID for Lajos Hanzo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2636-5214

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Author: Xiang-Jie Li
Author: Dong Pan
Author: Gui-Lu Long
Author: Lajos Hanzo ORCID iD

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