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View SchemaQuantum Bit Commitment can be Unconditionally Secure
| Authors | Chi-Yee Cheung |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0112120 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0112120 |
Abstract
It is generally believed that unconditionally secure quantum bit commitment (QBC) is proven impossible by a "no-go theorem". We point out that the theorem only establishes the existence of a cheating unitary transformation in any QBC scheme secure against the receiver, but this fact alone is not sufficient to rule out unconditionally secure QBC as a matter of principle, because there exists no proof that the cheating unitary transformation must be known to the cheater in all possible cases. In this work, we show how to circumvent the "no-go theorem" and prove that unconditionally secure QBC is in fact possible.
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