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View SchemaDecoherence-full subsystems and the cryptographic power of a private shared reference frame
| Authors | Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph, Robert W. Spekkens |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0403161 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0403161 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.032307 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 70, 032307 (2004) |
Abstract
We show that private shared reference frames can be used to perform private quantum and private classical communication over a public quantum channel. Such frames constitute a novel type of private shared correlation (distinct from private classical keys or shared entanglement) useful for cryptography. We present optimally efficient schemes for private quantum and classical communication given a finite number of qubits transmitted over an insecure channel and given a private shared Cartesian frame and/or a private shared reference ordering of the qubits. We show that in this context, it is useful to introduce the concept of a decoherence-full subsystem, wherein every state is mapped to the completely mixed state under the action of the decoherence.
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