Improving the Teleportation Scheme of Three-Qubit State with a Four-Qubit Quantum Channel

Recently, Zhao-Hui Wei et al. (Int. J. Theor. Phys. 55, 4687, 2016) proposed an improved quantum teleportation scheme for one three-qubit unknown state with a four-qubit quantum channel based on the original one proposed by Binayak S. Choudhury and Arpan Dhara (Int. J. Theor. Phys. 55, 3393, 2016). According to their schemes, the three-qubit entangled state could be teleported with one four-qubit cluster state and five-qubit joint measurements or four-qubit joint measurements. In this paper, we present an improved protocol only with single-qubit measurements and the same four-qubit quantum channel, lessening the difficulty and intensity of necessary operations.     

Bidirectional Quantum Teleportation of a Class of <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>-Qubit States by Using (2<Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis> + <Emphasis Type="Bold">2</Emphasis>)-Qubit Entangled States as Quantum Channel

A new protocol of bidirectional quantum teleportation (BQT) is proposed in which the users can transmit a class of n-qubit state to each other simultaneously, by using (2n + 2)-qubit entangled states as quantum channel. The state of the art approaches can only transmit two-qubit states in each round. This scheme is based on control-not operation, single-qubit measurements and appropriate single-qubit unitary operations. It is shown that the protocol is secure in preparation phase.     

Quantum-Secret-Sharing Scheme Based on Local Distinguishability of Orthogonal Seven-Qudit Entangled States

The concept of judgment space was proposed by Wang et al. (Phys. Rev. A 95, 022320, 2017), which was used to study some important properties of quantum entangled states based on local distinguishability. In this study, we construct 15 kinds of seven-qudit quantum entangled states in the sense of permutation, calculate their judgment space and propose a distinguishability rule to make the judgment space more clearly. Based on this rule, we study the local distinguishability of the 15 kinds of seven-qudit quantum entangled states and then propose a (k, n) threshold quantum secret sharing scheme. Finally, we analyze the security of the scheme.     

Controlled Remote State Preparation of an Arbitrary Two-Qubit State by Using Two Sets of Four-Qubit GHZ States

Recently, Huang and Zhao (Int. J. Theor. Phys. 56, 678, 2017) proposed a new scheme for controlled remote state preparation of an arbitrary two-qubit state by using two sets of three-qubit GHZ states as the quantum channel. In the scheme, Alice and Bob choose four different kinds of two-qubit projective measurement bases to measure their local qubits, respectively. We demonstrate that two sets of four-qubit GHZ states can be used to realize the deterministic controlled remote state preparation of an arbitrary two-qubit state by performing only two-qubit projective measurements.     

Multi-Hop Teleportation of an Unknown Qubit State Based on W States

Quantum teleportation is important in quantum communication networks. Considering that quantum state information is also transmitted between two distant nodes, intermediated nodes are employed and two multi-hop teleportation protocols based on W state are proposed. One is hop-by-hop teleportation protocol and the other is the improved multi-hop teleportation protocol with centralized unitary transformation. In hop-by-hop protocol, the transmitted quantum state needs to be recovered at every node on the route. In improved multi-hop teleportation protocol with centralized unitary transformation, intermediate nodes need not to recover the transmitted quantum state. Compared to the hop-by-hop protocol, the improved protocol can reduce the transmission delay and improve the transmission efficiency.     

Fuzzy Matching Based on Gray-scale Difference for Quantum Images

Quantum image processing has recently emerged as an essential problem in practical tasks, e.g. real-time image matching. Previous studies have shown that the superposition and entanglement of quantum can greatly improve the efficiency of complex image processing. In this paper, a fuzzy quantum image matching scheme based on gray-scale difference is proposed to find out the target region in a reference image, which is very similar to the template image. Firstly, we employ the proposed enhanced quantum representation (NEQR) to store digital images. Then some certain quantum operations are used to evaluate the gray-scale difference between two quantum images by thresholding. If all of the obtained gray-scale differences are not greater than the threshold value, it indicates a successful fuzzy matching of quantum images. Theoretical analysis and experiments show that the proposed scheme performs fuzzy matching at a low cost and also enables exponentially significant speedup via quantum parallel computation.     

An Arbitrated Proxy Blind Signature Based on Hyper Entanglement Analysis

Motivated by the hyperentangled Bell states analysis, an arbitrated quantum proxy blind signature (QPBS) scheme is developed. Four participants accomplish the task of signing and verifying via exchanging the entanglement of polarization and spatial-mode degrees of freedom. Alice blinds message and sends it to a proxy signatory David who is delegated by the original signatory Charlie. David generates a signature using the delegating code while Bob verifies the signing with the help of an arbitrator Trent. Unlike previous schemes, the verifying phase is no longer executed only by a recipient. Analysis shows that when the even numbers of blinding string always equal 1, the scheme protects the proxy blind signature against forgery and disavow while maintaining the properties of verifiability and identifiability.     

Effective Mass of Radion via GW Mechanism with a Non-Minimally Coupled Bulk Scalar Field

In the Randall-Sundrum braneworld scenario via the Goldberger-Wise mechanism, the effective mass of 4D radion, where the bulk scalar field is coupled to 5D gravity, has been investigated in two different case of the self-coupling constants, infinite and finite cases. It is shown that in the finite case, the modulus parameter should be greater than the finite coupling constants.     

Epistemic Horizons and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

In-principle restrictions on the amount of information that can be gathered about a system have been proposed as a foundational principle in several recent reconstructions of the formalism of quantum mechanics. However, it seems unclear precisely why one should be thus restricted. We investigate the notion of paradoxical self-reference as a possible origin of such epistemic horizons by means of a fixed-point theorem in Cartesian closed categories due to Lawvere that illuminates and unifies the different perspectives on self-reference.