In paper[Chin.Phys.B 32070308(2023)],Xing et al.proposed a semi-quantum secret sharing protocol by using single particles.We study the security of the proposed protocol and find that it is not secure,that is,the three...In paper[Chin.Phys.B 32070308(2023)],Xing et al.proposed a semi-quantum secret sharing protocol by using single particles.We study the security of the proposed protocol and find that it is not secure,that is,the three dishonest agents,Bob,Charlie and Emily can collude to obtain Alice's secret without the help of David.展开更多
Currently,all quantum private comparison protocols based on two-dimensional quantum states can only compare equality,via using high-dimensional quantum states that it is possible to compare the size relation in existi...Currently,all quantum private comparison protocols based on two-dimensional quantum states can only compare equality,via using high-dimensional quantum states that it is possible to compare the size relation in existing work.In addition,it is difficult to manipulate high-dimensional quantum states under the existing conditions of quantum information processing,leading to low practicality and engineering feasibility of protocols for comparing size relation.Considering this situation,we propose an innovative protocol.The proposed protocol can make size comparison by exploiting more manageable two-dimensional Bell states,which significantly enhances its feasibility with current quantum technologies.Simultaneously,the proposed protocol enables multiple participants to compare their privacies with the semi-quantum model.The communication process of the protocol is simulated on the IBM Quantum Experience platform to verify its effectiveness.Security analysis shows that the proposed protocol can withstand common attacks while preserving the privacies of all participants.Thus,the devised protocol may provide an important reference for implementation of quantum private size comparison protocols.展开更多
Semi-quantum secret sharing(SQSS) is an important branch of semi-quantum cryptography, and differs from quantum secret sharing(QSS) in that not all parties are required to possess quantum capabilities. All previous SQ...Semi-quantum secret sharing(SQSS) is an important branch of semi-quantum cryptography, and differs from quantum secret sharing(QSS) in that not all parties are required to possess quantum capabilities. All previous SQSS protocols have three common features:(i) they adopt product states or entangled states as initial quantum resource;(ii)the particles prepared by quantum party are transmitted in a tree-type way; and(iii) they require the classical parties to possess the measurement capability. In this paper, two circular SQSS protocols with single particles are suggested,where the first one requires the classical parties to possess the measurement capability while the second one does not have this requirement. Compared with the previous SQSS protocols, the proposed SQSS protocols have some distinct features:(i) they adopt single particles rather than product states or entangled states as initial quantum resource;(ii)the particles prepared by quantum party are transmitted in a circular way; and(iii) the second protocol releases the classical parties from the measurement capability. The proposed SQSS protocols are robust against some famous attacks from an eavesdropper, such as the measure-resend attack, the intercept-resend attack and the entangle-measure attack,and are feasible with present quantum technologies in reality.展开更多
A new efficient two-party semi-quantum key agreement protocol is proposed with high-dimensional single-particle states.Different from the previous semi-quantum key agreement protocols based on the two-level quantum sy...A new efficient two-party semi-quantum key agreement protocol is proposed with high-dimensional single-particle states.Different from the previous semi-quantum key agreement protocols based on the two-level quantum system,the propounded protocol makes use of the advantage of the high-dimensional quantum system,which possesses higher efficiency and better robustness against eavesdropping.Besides,the protocol allows the classical participant to encode the secret key with qudit shifting operations without involving any quantum measurement abilities.The designed semi-quantum key agreement protocol could resist both participant attacks and outsider attacks.Meanwhile,the conjoint analysis of security and efficiency provides an appropriate choice for reference on the dimension of single-particle states and the number of decoy states.展开更多
Quantum private comparison is an important topic in quantum cryptography.Recently,the idea of semi-quantumness has been often used in designing private comparison protocol,which allows some of the participants to rema...Quantum private comparison is an important topic in quantum cryptography.Recently,the idea of semi-quantumness has been often used in designing private comparison protocol,which allows some of the participants to remain classical.In this paper,we propose a semi quantum private comparison scheme based on Greenberge-Horne-Zeilinger(GHZ)class states,which allows two classical participants to compare the equality of their private secret with the help of a quantum third party(server).In the proposed protocol,server is semi-honest who will follow the protocol honestly,but he may try to learn additional information from the protocol execution.The classical participants’activities are restricted to either measuring a quantum state or reflecting it in the classical basis{0,1}.In addition,security and efficiency of the proposed schemes have been discussed.展开更多
Semi-quantum secret sharing(SQSS)is a branch of quantum cryptography which only requires the dealer to have quantum capabilities,reducing the difficulty of protocol implementation.However,the efficiency of the SQSS pr...Semi-quantum secret sharing(SQSS)is a branch of quantum cryptography which only requires the dealer to have quantum capabilities,reducing the difficulty of protocol implementation.However,the efficiency of the SQSS protocol still needs to be further studied.In this paper,we propose a semi-quantum secret sharing protocol,whose efficiency can approach 100%as the length of message increases.The protocol is based on single particles to reduce the difficulty of resource preparation.Particle reordering,a simple but effective operation,is used in the protocol to improve efficiency and ensure security.Furthermore,our protocol can share specific secrets while most SQSS protocols could not.We also prove that the protocol is secure against common attacks.展开更多
Private comparison is the basis of many encryption technologies,and several related Quantum Private Comparison(QPC)protocols have been published in recent years.In these existing protocols,secret information is encode...Private comparison is the basis of many encryption technologies,and several related Quantum Private Comparison(QPC)protocols have been published in recent years.In these existing protocols,secret information is encoded by using conjugate coding or orthogonal states,and all users are quantum participants.In this paper,a novel semi-quantum private comparison scheme is proposed,which employs Bell entangled states as quantum resources.Two semi-quantum participants compare the equivalence of their private information with the help of a semi-honest third party(TP).Compared with the previous classical protocols,these two semi-quantum users can only make some particular action,such as to measure,prepare and reflect quantum qubits only in the classical basis fj0i;j1ig,and TP needs to perform Bell basis measurement on reflecting qubits to obtain the results of the comparison.Further,analysis results show that this scheme can avoid outside and participant attacks and its’qubit efficiency is better than the other two protocols mentioned in the paper.展开更多
A novel efficient semi-quantum private comparison protocol based on the d-dimensional GHZ states is proposed.With the assistance of semi-honest third party,two classical participants can compare the size relation of t...A novel efficient semi-quantum private comparison protocol based on the d-dimensional GHZ states is proposed.With the assistance of semi-honest third party,two classical participants can compare the size relation of their secrets without any information leakage.To reduce the consumption of quantum devices,the qubit efficiency of our protocol is improved by introducing the semi-quantum conception via the existing semi-quantum private comparisons.Furthermore,it is unnecessary to prepare the secure classical authentication channel among participants in advance.It is shown that our protocol is not only correct and efficient,but also free from external and internal attacks.展开更多
We propose a novel extension of quantum field theory by introducing Intrinsic Quantum Oscillators (IQuO) to describe the internal degrees of freedom of a particle. IQuO is composed of sub-oscillators with semi-quanta ...We propose a novel extension of quantum field theory by introducing Intrinsic Quantum Oscillators (IQuO) to describe the internal degrees of freedom of a particle. IQuO is composed of sub-oscillators with semi-quanta and are described by creation operators and annihilation with two components each. In the interaction between two particles, thanks to the structure with semi-quants of an IQuO, it is possible to show that in the initial phase of a coupling between two particle-fields, a non-dynamic process of reduction from a non-local to a local state takes place. Besides, IQuO allows us to demonstrate a direct correlation between the two directions of phase rotation of the wave function of a particle and the two signs of its electric charge. This connection provides a new understanding of particle-antiparticle pair creation and their associated virtual boson fields. Finally, two distinct IQuO configurations, B-IQuO and F-IQuO, explain the fundamental difference between fermions and bosons.展开更多
基金Project supported by the Offline Course Program of“Experiment of College Physics”in the 2022-year Anhui Provincial Quality Engineering Program (Grant No.2022xxkc134)the Program for Academic Leader Reserve Candidates in Tongling University (Grant Nos.2020tlxyxs43 and 2014tlxyxs30)+1 种基金the Talent Scientific Research Foundation of Tongling University (Grant No.2015tlxyrc01)the 2014 year Program for Excellent Youth Talents in University of Anhui Province。
文摘In paper[Chin.Phys.B 32070308(2023)],Xing et al.proposed a semi-quantum secret sharing protocol by using single particles.We study the security of the proposed protocol and find that it is not secure,that is,the three dishonest agents,Bob,Charlie and Emily can collude to obtain Alice's secret without the help of David.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62161025)the Project of Scientific and Technological Innovation Base of Jiangxi Province(Grant No.20203CCD46008)the Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Fusion and Information Control(Grant No.20171BCD40005).
文摘Currently,all quantum private comparison protocols based on two-dimensional quantum states can only compare equality,via using high-dimensional quantum states that it is possible to compare the size relation in existing work.In addition,it is difficult to manipulate high-dimensional quantum states under the existing conditions of quantum information processing,leading to low practicality and engineering feasibility of protocols for comparing size relation.Considering this situation,we propose an innovative protocol.The proposed protocol can make size comparison by exploiting more manageable two-dimensional Bell states,which significantly enhances its feasibility with current quantum technologies.Simultaneously,the proposed protocol enables multiple participants to compare their privacies with the semi-quantum model.The communication process of the protocol is simulated on the IBM Quantum Experience platform to verify its effectiveness.Security analysis shows that the proposed protocol can withstand common attacks while preserving the privacies of all participants.Thus,the devised protocol may provide an important reference for implementation of quantum private size comparison protocols.
基金Supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61871347the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province under Grant No.LY18F020007
文摘Semi-quantum secret sharing(SQSS) is an important branch of semi-quantum cryptography, and differs from quantum secret sharing(QSS) in that not all parties are required to possess quantum capabilities. All previous SQSS protocols have three common features:(i) they adopt product states or entangled states as initial quantum resource;(ii)the particles prepared by quantum party are transmitted in a tree-type way; and(iii) they require the classical parties to possess the measurement capability. In this paper, two circular SQSS protocols with single particles are suggested,where the first one requires the classical parties to possess the measurement capability while the second one does not have this requirement. Compared with the previous SQSS protocols, the proposed SQSS protocols have some distinct features:(i) they adopt single particles rather than product states or entangled states as initial quantum resource;(ii)the particles prepared by quantum party are transmitted in a circular way; and(iii) the second protocol releases the classical parties from the measurement capability. The proposed SQSS protocols are robust against some famous attacks from an eavesdropper, such as the measure-resend attack, the intercept-resend attack and the entangle-measure attack,and are feasible with present quantum technologies in reality.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61871205 and 61561033)the Major Academic Discipline and Technical Leader of Jiangxi Province,China(Grant No.20162BCB22011).
文摘A new efficient two-party semi-quantum key agreement protocol is proposed with high-dimensional single-particle states.Different from the previous semi-quantum key agreement protocols based on the two-level quantum system,the propounded protocol makes use of the advantage of the high-dimensional quantum system,which possesses higher efficiency and better robustness against eavesdropping.Besides,the protocol allows the classical participant to encode the secret key with qudit shifting operations without involving any quantum measurement abilities.The designed semi-quantum key agreement protocol could resist both participant attacks and outsider attacks.Meanwhile,the conjoint analysis of security and efficiency provides an appropriate choice for reference on the dimension of single-particle states and the number of decoy states.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61572086)Major Project of Education Department in Sichuan(Grant No.18ZA0109)Web Culture Project Sponsored by the Humanities and Social Science Research Base of the Sichuan Provincial Education Department(Grant No.WLWH18-22).
文摘Quantum private comparison is an important topic in quantum cryptography.Recently,the idea of semi-quantumness has been often used in designing private comparison protocol,which allows some of the participants to remain classical.In this paper,we propose a semi quantum private comparison scheme based on Greenberge-Horne-Zeilinger(GHZ)class states,which allows two classical participants to compare the equality of their private secret with the help of a quantum third party(server).In the proposed protocol,server is semi-honest who will follow the protocol honestly,but he may try to learn additional information from the protocol execution.The classical participants’activities are restricted to either measuring a quantum state or reflecting it in the classical basis{0,1}.In addition,security and efficiency of the proposed schemes have been discussed.
基金Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2020YFB1805405)the 111 Project(Grant No.B21049),the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62272051)+1 种基金the Foundation of Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Public Big Data(Grant No.2019BDKFJJ014)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(Grant Nos.2019XD-A02 and 2020RC38).
文摘Semi-quantum secret sharing(SQSS)is a branch of quantum cryptography which only requires the dealer to have quantum capabilities,reducing the difficulty of protocol implementation.However,the efficiency of the SQSS protocol still needs to be further studied.In this paper,we propose a semi-quantum secret sharing protocol,whose efficiency can approach 100%as the length of message increases.The protocol is based on single particles to reduce the difficulty of resource preparation.Particle reordering,a simple but effective operation,is used in the protocol to improve efficiency and ensure security.Furthermore,our protocol can share specific secrets while most SQSS protocols could not.We also prove that the protocol is secure against common attacks.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61402058,61572086)Major Project of Education Department in Sichuan(Grant No.18ZA0109)Web Culture Project Sponsored by the Humanities and Social Science Research Base of the Sichuan Provincial Education Department(Grant No.WLWH18-22).
文摘Private comparison is the basis of many encryption technologies,and several related Quantum Private Comparison(QPC)protocols have been published in recent years.In these existing protocols,secret information is encoded by using conjugate coding or orthogonal states,and all users are quantum participants.In this paper,a novel semi-quantum private comparison scheme is proposed,which employs Bell entangled states as quantum resources.Two semi-quantum participants compare the equivalence of their private information with the help of a semi-honest third party(TP).Compared with the previous classical protocols,these two semi-quantum users can only make some particular action,such as to measure,prepare and reflect quantum qubits only in the classical basis fj0i;j1ig,and TP needs to perform Bell basis measurement on reflecting qubits to obtain the results of the comparison.Further,analysis results show that this scheme can avoid outside and participant attacks and its’qubit efficiency is better than the other two protocols mentioned in the paper.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.62161025 and 61871205)the Project of Scientific and Technological Innovation Base of Jiangxi Province,China(Grant No.20203CCD46008)the Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Fusion and Information Control,China(Grant No.20171BCD40005).
文摘A novel efficient semi-quantum private comparison protocol based on the d-dimensional GHZ states is proposed.With the assistance of semi-honest third party,two classical participants can compare the size relation of their secrets without any information leakage.To reduce the consumption of quantum devices,the qubit efficiency of our protocol is improved by introducing the semi-quantum conception via the existing semi-quantum private comparisons.Furthermore,it is unnecessary to prepare the secure classical authentication channel among participants in advance.It is shown that our protocol is not only correct and efficient,but also free from external and internal attacks.
文摘We propose a novel extension of quantum field theory by introducing Intrinsic Quantum Oscillators (IQuO) to describe the internal degrees of freedom of a particle. IQuO is composed of sub-oscillators with semi-quanta and are described by creation operators and annihilation with two components each. In the interaction between two particles, thanks to the structure with semi-quants of an IQuO, it is possible to show that in the initial phase of a coupling between two particle-fields, a non-dynamic process of reduction from a non-local to a local state takes place. Besides, IQuO allows us to demonstrate a direct correlation between the two directions of phase rotation of the wave function of a particle and the two signs of its electric charge. This connection provides a new understanding of particle-antiparticle pair creation and their associated virtual boson fields. Finally, two distinct IQuO configurations, B-IQuO and F-IQuO, explain the fundamental difference between fermions and bosons.