Participant attack on quantum secret sharing based on entanglement swapping

The security of quantum secret sharing based on entanglement swapping is revisited and a participant attack is presented. In this attack two dishonest agents together can illegally recover the secret quantum state without the help of any other controller, and it will not be detected by any other users. Furthermore, by modifying the distribution process of particles and adding a detection step after each distribution process, we propose an improved protocol which can resist this kind of attack.     

Teleportation of N-Particle Entangled GHZ State via Entanglement Swapping

In this scheme, N non-maximally entangled particle pairs are used as quantum channel to teleport an unknown N-particle entangled GHZ state via entanglement swapping. In order to realize this teleportation, the sender Alice operates Bell-state measurement on particles belonging to herself. Then she informs the results to the receiver Bob through classical communication. According to the results, Bob operates corresponding transformation to reconstruct the initial state. The advantage of this scheme is that it needs only one common unitary matrix for Alice‘s different results, which has a more general meaning. As a special case, teleporting an unknown three-particle entangled GHZ state is proposed.     

Mpro-C蛋白三维结构域交换的机理: 来自分子模拟的线索

SARS冠状病毒主蛋白酶(M^pro)在病毒的蛋白酶切过程中发挥着重要作用. M^pro的晶体结构显示它存在两种形式的二聚体: 一种是发生三维结构域交换的形式, 另一种是非交换的形式. M^pro的C端结构域(M^pro-C)单独表达时也能形成与全长M^pro类似的三维结构域交换二聚体. 三维结构域交换通常发生在蛋白质的表面, 但M^pro-C 的结构域交换却发生在疏水核心. 在本文中, 我们利用分子动力学模拟及三维结构域交换预测算法研究了M^pro-C 中被高度埋藏的核心螺旋片段发生交换的机理. 我们发现基于结构与基于序列的已有算法都不能正确预言出M^pro-C和M^pro中发生结构域交换的铰链区位置. 分子模拟结果表明M^pro-C中的交换片段在天然态下埋藏得很好, 但在变性单体中则会被释放并暴露在外面. 因此, 在完全或部分解折叠状态下交换片段的打开有助于促进单体间的相互作用及结构域交换二聚体的形成.     

二能级原子与相干态腔场相互作用过程中的纠缠交换

用量子信息学的观点，分析了发生在一个多个原子和腔场组成的系统中最大纠缠态在原子和多模类奇-偶相干态光场之间相互转移的物理过程，该系统中原子和腔场之间由依赖于强 度耦合的Jaynes-Cummings模型描述.结果发现：通过控制原子与腔场相互作用的时间，并 对原子的状态进行测量，原子的最大纠缠态可以转换为类奇-偶相干态光场的最大纠缠态，反之，纠缠的多模类奇-偶相干态光场也可以转换为原子的最大纠缠态. 关键词： 量子信息 腔量子电动力学 连续变量纠缠态 纠缠交换和传递     

Probabilistic Teleportation of a Four-Particle Entangled State

A Scheme for teleporting an unknown four-particle entangled state is proposed via entangled swapping. In this scheme, four pairs of entangled particles are used as quantum channel. It is shown that, if the four pairs of particles are nonmaximally entangled, the teleportation can be successfully realized with certain probability if a receiver adopts some appropriate unitary transformations.     

Scheme for Generation of Maximally Entangled States via Entanglement Swapping

Based on two atoms and two cavities initially in two pairs of atom-photon nonmaximally entangled states, we propose a relatively simple scheme to create maximally entangled photon-photon and atom-photon states via entanglement swapping using techniques of cavity QED inspired by the scheme proposed in [Phys. Rev. A 71 （2005） 044302] and [Phys. Rev. A 71 （2005） 034312]. Our scheme does not involve the measurement in Bell basis, we only require detecting the states of atoms.     

Mixing times for the Swapping Algorithm on the Blume‐Emery‐Griffiths model

We analyze the so called Swapping Algorithm, a parallel version of the well‐known Metropolis‐Hastings algorithm, on the mean‐field version of the Blume‐Emery‐Griffiths model in statistical mechanics. This model has two parameters and depending on their choice, the model exhibits either a first, or a second order phase transition. In agreement with a conjecture by Bhatnagar and Randall we find that the Swapping Algorithm mixes rapidly in presence of a second order phase transition, while becoming slow when the phase transition is first order. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 45, 38–77, 2014     

基于最少中继节点约束的量子VoIP路由优化策略

量子信息的传输过程中,由于拥塞、链路故障等原因,导致数据分组在路由器排队,产生时延、丢包.为了保证量子Vo IP系统的性能,本文提出了基于最少中继节点约束的路由优化策略.采用基于纠缠交换的中继技术,通过优先选择最少中继节点的量子信道,实现多用户量子Vo IP通信.理论分析和仿真结果表明,当链路出现故障和拥塞时,基于M/M/m型排队系统,采用本策略,当设定量子比特的误码率为0.2,共用信道数目从4增加到8时,量子网络的呼损率由0.25下降到0.024,量子网络的最大吞吐量由64 kbps增加到132 kbps.当设定共用信道数目为4,控制量子比特的误码率从0.3到0.1时,可使量子网络最大吞吐量从41 kbps增加到140 kbps.由此可见,本策略能够极大地提高量子Vo IP网络的性能.     

Heralded Universal Quantum Gate and Entangler Assisted by Imperfect Double‐Sided Quantum‐Dot‐Microcavity Systems

Efficient ways are presented to accomplish photonic controlled‐phase‐flip gate and entangler with the assistance of imperfect double‐sided quantum‐dot‐microcavity systems, but without ancillary qubits. Compact quantum circuits for implementing entanglement swapping between photon pairs and electron pairs are then designed. Unity fidelities of the schemes can be achieved, and physical imperfections in the construction processes are detected by single‐photon detectors. Also, the efficiencies of the schemes can be further improved by repeating the operation processes when the undesired performances are detected. The evaluations show that the schemes are possible with current experiment parameters.