Probabilistic direct counterfactual quantum communication

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/2/020304

Abstract It is striking that the quantum Zeno effect can be used to launch a direct counterfactual communication between two spatially separated parties, Alice and Bob. So far, existing protocols of this type only provide a deterministic counterfactual communication service. However, this counterfactuality should be payed at a price. Firstly, the transmission time is much longer than a classical transmission costs. Secondly, the chained-cycle structure makes them more sensitive to channel noises. Here, we extend the idea of counterfactual communication, and present a probabilistic-counterfactual quantum communication protocol, which is proved to have advantages over the deterministic ones. Moreover, the presented protocol could evolve to a deterministic one solely by adjusting the parameters of the beam splitters.

Keywords: quantum communication quantum cryptography optical implementation of quantum information processing

Received: 31 May 2016
Revised: 03 November 2016
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PACS:	03.67.Dd	(Quantum cryptography and communication security)
	03.67.Hk	(Quantum communication)
	42.50.Ex	(Optical implementations of quantum information processing and transfer)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61300203).

Corresponding Authors: Sheng Zhang
E-mail: huoxingren112@163.com

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Sheng Zhang(张盛) Probabilistic direct counterfactual quantum communication 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 020304

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