Fault-tolerant quantum blind signature protocols against collective noise

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• 作者：Ming-Hui Zhang ; Hui-Fang Li
• 关键词：Quantum cryptography ; Quantum blind signature ; Entanglement swapping ; Fault ; tolerant ; Collective noise ; Decoherence ; free states
• 刊名：Quantum Information Processing
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：15
• 期：10
• 页码：4283-4301
• 全文大小：518 KB
• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Physics
  Physics
  Mathematics
  Engineering, general
  Computer Science, general
  Characterization and Evaluation Materials
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1332
• 卷排序：15

文摘

This work proposes two fault-tolerant quantum blind signature protocols based on the entanglement swapping of logical Bell states, which are robust against two kinds of collective noises: the collective-dephasing noise and the collective-rotation noise, respectively. Both of the quantum blind signature protocols are constructed from four-qubit decoherence-free (DF) states, i.e., logical Bell qubits. The initial message is encoded on the logical Bell qubits with logical unitary operations, which will not destroy the anti-noise trait of the logical Bell qubits. Based on the fundamental property of quantum entanglement swapping, the receiver simply performs two Bell-state measurements (rather than four-qubit joint measurements) on the logical Bell qubits to verify the signature, which makes the protocols more convenient in a practical application. Different from the existing quantum signature protocols, our protocols can offer the high fidelity of quantum communication with the employment of logical qubits. Moreover, we hereinafter prove the security of the protocols against some individual eavesdropping attacks, and we show that our protocols have the characteristics of unforgeability, undeniability and blindness.