EXACT REMOTE STATE PREPARATION FOR MULTIPARTIES USING DARK STATES

A necessary and sufficient condition is given for general exact remote state preparation (RSP) protocols to be oblivious, that is, no information about the target state can be retrieved from the classical message. A novel criterion in terms of commutation relations is also derived for the existence of deterministic exact protocols in which Alice's measurement eigenstates are related to each other by fixed linear operators similar to Bob's unitaries. For non-maximally entangled resources, it provides an easy way to search for RSP protocols. As an example, we show how to reduce the case of partially entangled resources to that of maximally entangled ones, and we construct RSP protocols exploiting the structure of the irreducible representations of Abelian groups.

In this paper, the technique of weak measurement is employed in order to enhance the fidelity of joint remote state preparation (JRSP) protocol under decoherence. We design a quantum circuit of joint remote preparation of a single-qubit state through a GHZ state. Then, we analytically derive the average fidelity of the JRSP protocol under four types of noise usually encountered in real-world implementations of quantum communication protocols, i.e. the phase-flip, depolarizing, amplitude-damping and bit-flip noise. Our study shows that the application of weak measurement and measurement reversal could enhance the average fidelity of the JRSP process under the influence of phase-flip, depolarizing, amplitude-damping noise for most values of the decoherence parameters. If the JRSP process suffers from the bit-flip noise, the weak measurement technique is not useful for increasing the average fidelity.

In quantum teleportation, neither Alice nor Bob acquires any classical knowledge on teleported states. The teleportation protocol is said to be oblivious to both parties. In remote state preparation (RSP) it is assumed that Alice is given complete classical knowledge on the state that is to be prepared by Bob. Recently, Leung and Shor showed that the same amount of classical information as that in teleportation needs to be transmitted in any exact and deterministic RSP protocol that is oblivious to Bob. We study similar RSP protocols, but not necessarily oblivious to Bob. First it is shown that Bob's quantum operation can be safely assumed to be a unitary transformation. We then derive an equation that is a necessary and sufficient condition for such a protocol to exist. By studying this equation, we show that one qubit RSP requires 2 cbits of classical communication, which is the same amount as in teleportation, even if the protocol is not assumed oblivious to Bob. For higher dimensions, it is still open whether the amount of classical communication can be reduced by abandoning oblivious conditions.

Properties of quantum mechanics have enabled the emergence of quantum cryptographic protocols achieving important goals which are proven to be impossible classically. Unfortunately, this usually comes at the cost of needing quantum power from every party in the protocol, while arguably a more realistic scenario would be a network of classical clients, classically interacting with a quantum server. In this paper, we focus on copy-protection, which is a quantum primitive that allows a program to be evaluated, but not copied, and has shown interest especially due to its links to other unclonable cryptographic primitives. Our main contribution is to show how to dequantize quantum copy-protection schemes constructed from hidden coset states, by giving a construction for classically-instructed remote state preparation for coset states, which preserves hardness properties of hidden coset states. We then apply this dequantizer to obtain semi-quantum cryptographic protocols for copy-protection and tokenized signatures with strong unforgeability. In the process, we present the first secure copy-protection scheme for point functions in the plain model and a new direct product hardness property of coset states which immediately implies a strongly unforgeable tokenized signature scheme. ⋆ Work done while at CRED and DIENS. 1 This is called hybrid quantum cryptography in [AGKZ20]. Technical Overview Copy-Protection In this section, we give an overview of our remote coset state preparation protocol and its proof of soundness. To give the reader a glimpse of the functionality of our protocol and how it can be used as a generic compiler to obtain semi-quantum copy-protection, we first start by analysing security requirements for several existing quantum copy-protection schemes based on coset states. Security Requirements. For our discussion, we focus on the copy-protection of pseudorandom functions scheme in the plain model and the single-decryptor scheme in the plain model presented in [CLLZ21] . The common point is that security of these constructions all reduce to a monogamy-ofentanglement property of coset states [CLLZ21, CV22]. Informally, this property states that a triple of quantum algorithms Alice, Bob and Charlie cannot cooperatively win the following monogamy game with a challenger, except with negligible probability. The challenger first prepares a uniformly random coset state |A s,s ′ ⟩ and gives the state to Alice. Alice outputs two (possibly entangled) quantum states and sends them to Bob and Charlie respectively. No communication is allowed between Bob and Charlie. Finally, Bob and Charlie both get the description of the subspace A. The game is won if Bob outputs a vector in A + s and Charlie outputs a vector in A ⊥ + s ′ , where A ⊥ denote the dual subspace of A. If our goal is to design a semi-quantum protocol for preparing coset states such that it can be used in a plug-and-play manner for the aforementioned protocols, our protocol needs to have the following properties: • Correctness. If the prover is honest, at the end of the protocol execution, the prover must have a hidden coset state |A s,s ′ ⟩ in its registers.

Cluster state is deemed to be a significant quantum resource, for it can encode much information; its remote preparation is significant to the quantum information processing. In the paper, a novel joint remote quantum state preparation protocol is proposed, in which three participants are included, and they are cooperatively involved for the protocol accomplishment within the configuration constructed by the four-qubit cluster type and EPR pairs. The cluster-type state is successful prepared via the appropriate unitary operations after the relevant participants perform the projection measurement. The presented protocol shows highly secure and could stand against the external eavesdropper.

A novel scheme for quantum communication having substantial applications in practical life is designed and analyzed. Specifically, we have proposed a hierarchical counterpart of the joint remote state preparation (JRSP) protocol, where two senders can jointly and remotely prepare a quantum state. One sender has the information regarding amplitude, while the other one has the phase information of a quantum state to be jointly prepared at the receiver's port. However, there exists a hierarchy among the receivers, as far as powers to reconstruct the quantum state is concerned. A 5-qubit cluster state has been used here to perform the task. Further, it is established that the proposed scheme for hierarchical JRSP (HJRSP) is of enormous practical importance in critical situations involving defense and other sectors, where it is essential to ensure that an important decision/order that can severely affect a society or an organization is not taken by a single person, and once the order is issued all the receivers don't possess an equal right to implement it. Further, the effect of different noise models (e.g., amplitude damping (AD), phase damping (PD), collective noise and Pauli noise models) on the HJRSP protocol proposed here is investigated. It is found that in AD and PD noise models a higher power agent can reconstruct the quantum state to be remotely prepared with higher fidelity than that done by the lower power agent(s). In contrast, the opposite may happen in the presence of collective noise models. We have also proposed a scheme for probabilistic HJRSP using a non-maximally entangled 5-qubit cluster state.

This paper offers a theoretical protocol for deterministic controlled remote state preparation of arbitrary real-parameter multi-qubit states, in which the maximally three-qubit entangled states are used as quantum channel. We elaborate the processes of implementing remote state preparation of the real-parameter two- and three-qubit states, and extend the protocol to realize the real-parameter n-qubit states. By performing the appropriate multi-qubit projective measurement basis and multi-qubit unitary operations, the successful probability of our scheme can reach 100%.

Quantum communication protocols based on nonclassical correlations can be more efficient than known classical methods and offer intrinsic security over direct state transfer. In particular, remote state preparation aims at the creation of a desired and known quantum state at a remote location using classical communication and quantum entanglement. We present an experimental realization of deterministic continuous-variable remote state preparation in the microwave regime over a distance of 35 cm. By employing propagating two-mode squeezed microwave states and feedforward, we achieve the remote preparation of squeezed states with up to 1.6 dB of squeezing below the vacuum level. Finally, security of remote state preparation is investigated by using the concept of the one-time pad and measuring the von Neumann entropies. We find nearly identical values for the entropy of the remotely prepared state and the respective conditional entropy given the classically communicated information and, thus, demonstrate close-to-perfect security.

Using partial entangled states as the quantum channel, two schemes for probabilistic remote preparation of the four-particle cluster-type state with real and complex coefficients are presented. In the first scheme, the sender and the receiver share two partial Bell states and one partial three-qubit GHZ stats as the quantum channel, and the sender can help a remote receiver to prepare a four-particle entangled cluster-type state by using three-qubit projective measurements with certain probability. In the second scheme, the quantum channel is composed of two partial three-qubit GHZ states, the remote state preparation (RSP) can be successfully realized via the positive operator valued measure (POVM), and the two-particle projective measurements are also needed in this process. The total success probability and classical communication cost are calculated.

We discuss a quantum remote state preparation protocol by which two parties, Alice and Candy, prepare a single-qubit and a two-qubit state, respectively, at the site of the receiver Bob. The single-qubit state is known to Alice while the two-qubit state which is a non-maximally entangled Bell state is known to Candy. The three parties are connected through a single entangled state which acts as a quantum channel. We first describe the protocol in the ideal case when the entangled channel under use is in a pure state. After that, we consider the effect of amplitude damping (AD) noise on the quantum channel and describe the protocol executed through the noisy channel. The decrement of the fidelity is shown to occur with the increment in the noise parameter. This is shown by numerical computation in specific examples of the states to be created. Finally, we show that it is possible to maintain the label of fidelity to some extent and hence to decrease the effect of noise by the application of weak and reversal measurements. We also present a scheme for the generation of the five-qubit entangled resource which we require as a quantum channel. The generation scheme is run on the IBMQ platform.

We present a theoretical scheme for non-teleportation-based exact deterministic remote state preparation (RSP) in continuous variable (CV) quantum systems. It is an infinite dimensional generalization of RSP of equatorial states. It is capable of preparing states of an ensemble that is parameterized by infinitely many real numbers, i.e. by a real function, while the classical communication cost is only one real number. We show the relation of our scheme to the classical Vernam cipher (one-time pad).

We examine dark quantum superposition states of weakly bound Rb2 Feshbach molecules and tightly bound triplet Rb2 molecules in the rovibrational ground state, created by subjecting a pure sample of Feshbach molecules in an optical lattice to a bichromatic Raman laser field. We analyze, both experimentally and theoretically, the creation and dynamics of these dark states. Coherent wavepacket oscillations of deeply bound molecules in lattice sites, as previously observed by Lang et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett., 2008, 101, 133005), are suppressed due to laser-induced phase locking of molecular levels. This can be understood as the appearance of a novel multilevel dark state. In addition, the experimental methods developed help to determine important properties of our coupled atom/ laser system.

Remote state preparation (RSP) is the act of preparing a quantum state at a remote location without actually transmitting the state itself. Using at most two classical bits and a single shared maximally entangled state, one can in theory remotely prepare any qubit state with certainty and with perfect fidelity. However, in any experimental implementation the average fidelity between the target and output states cannot be perfect. In order for an RSP experiment to demonstrate genuine quantum advantages, it must surpass the optimal threshold of a comparable classical protocol. Here we study the fidelity achievable by RSP protocols lacking shared entanglement, and determine the optimal value for the average fidelity in several different cases. We implement an experimental scheme for deterministic remote preparation of arbitrary photon polarization qubits, preparing 178 different pure and mixed qubit states with an average fidelity of 0.995. Our experimentally-achieved average fidelities surpass our derived classical thresholds whenever the classical protocol does not trivially allow for perfect RSP.

We present two schemes for preparing remotely athree-particle entangled state by two different quantum channels. In thefirst scheme, two partial three-particle entangled states are used as thequantum channels, while in the second scheme, three two-particlenon-maximally entangled states are employed as the quantum channels. It isshown that the remote state preparation can be successfully realized withcertain probability, for both two schemes, if a sender performs someprojective measurements and a receiver adopts some appropriate unitarytransformations. It is shown also that the successful probabilitiesof these two schemes are different.

Using a GHZ-class state as a quantum channel, we investigate the remote preparation of a qubit state and that of an entangled state in noisy environments. By analytically solving the master equation in Lindblad form, we first obtain the time evolution of the GHZ-class quantum channel. Then the influence of the noises on the process of remote state preparation is considered through analytical derivation of the fidelity and numerical calculations of the corresponding average fidelity. Our results show that the fidelity depends on the noise type, the state to be remotely prepared, the GHZ-class state and the decoherence rate. Moreover, it is found that no matter whether the qubit state or the entangled state is to be remotely prepared, the maximally entangled quantum channel has a relatively stronger ability to resist the influence of noises. Besides, the effect of the bit–phase flip noise on the average fidelity is relatively stronger than that of the bit flip noise or phase flip noise.