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Robust Quantum Secure Communication with Spatial Quantum States of Single Photons

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The polarization quantum states of photon systems are fragile to the channel noise. However, recent experiments showed that the spatial quantum states of photon systems are robust. Recently, Ren et al. proposed a robust quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) protocol with spatial entanglement (Ren et al., Eur. Phys. J. D 67:30, 2013). Here we proposed a robust QSDC protocol and a robust three-party quantum secret sharing protocol with the four nonorthogonal spatial quantum states of a sequence of single photons, respectively. Both these two quantum secure communication protocols have the advantage of having a robust character and not increasing the difficulty of their implementations in experiment, compared with almost all the existing quantum secure communication protocols which are based on the polarization quantum states of photon systems. Moreover, they are more feasible than the QSDC protocol by Ren et al. as they do not require Bell-state measurements.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11105075.

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    Bin Gu & Yulin Chen

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    Yugai Huang & Xia Fang

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Gu, B., Huang, Y., Fang, X. et al. Robust Quantum Secure Communication with Spatial Quantum States of Single Photons. Int J Theor Phys 52, 4461–4469 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-013-1765-2

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