Single-qubit State Research Articles

Multi-hop Remote Single Qubit State Preparation Based on Arbitrary Bell States

Multi-hop Remote Single Qubit State Preparation Based on Arbitrary Bell States

Memory effects on bidirectional teleportation

In this contribution, we have investigated the bidirectional quantum teleportation (BQT) of single qubit states using a Bell state influenced by decoherence channels with memory, dephasing and amplitude damping channels. The expressions of the partial transposed density operator, as a measure of the entanglement remaining in the BQT quantum channel, the teleportation fidelities and the quantum Fisher information are also evaluated. We find that both these last quantities depend on the survival amount of entanglement in the BQT quantum channel, on the decoherence factor and on the correlation degree of the decoherence channel. We show that in the Markovian regime, the Negativity, the teleportation average fidelities and the quantum Fisher information are slightly enhanced by considering the classical channel correlations. Besides, in the non-Markovian regime, these three quantities could be improved for a long period of time.

Controlled quantum broadcast and multi-cast communications of complex coefficient single-qubit states

Controlled quantum broadcast and multi-cast communications of complex coefficient single-qubit states

Quantum transfer of interacting qubits

The transfer of quantum information between different locations is key to many quantum information processing tasks. Whereas, the transfer of a single qubit state has been extensively investigated, the transfer of a many-body system configuration has insofar remained elusive. We address the problem of transferring the state of n interacting qubits. Both the exponentially increasing Hilbert space dimension, and the presence of interactions significantly scale-up the complexity of achieving high-fidelity transfer. By employing tools from random matrix theory and using the formalism of quantum dynamical maps, we derive a general expression for the average and the variance of the fidelity of an arbitrary quantum state transfer protocol for n interacting qubits. Finally, by adopting a weak-coupling scheme in a spin chain, we obtain the explicit conditions for high-fidelity transfer of three and four interacting qubits.

Implementation of a noise-robust quantum algorithm for multivariate polynomial factorization

We implement in an IBM quantum computer a quantum algorithm for multivariate polynomial factoring and propose a noise-avoiding protocol to distill the experimental results in the presence of noise. This algorithm uses single-qubit quantum state tomography (QST) processes to factor a specific type of multivariate polynomials. In one-to-one correspondence, it encodes each multivariate polynomial to one quantum state. While the validity of the algorithm is experimentally verified, the quality of the final results is subjected to the decoherence levels of the preparation of the quantum states. In this paper we propose a protocol to ensure the validity of factors found by our algorithm in the presence of such decoherence and noise. This method might be, in fact, part of a larger class of methods based on that same premise and useful outside the implementation of this specific algorithm. In combination with the noise robustness of the single-qubit QST, our factorization algorithm performs perfectly, even reversing the effects of weak noise, for the second- to fifth-order polynomial cases for which it has been implemented.

Unified entropies and quantum speed limits for nonunitary dynamics

We discuss a class of quantum speed limits (QSLs) based on unified quantum ($\alpha,\mu$)-entropy for nonunitary physical processes. The bounds depend on both the Schatten speed and the smallest eigenvalue of the evolved state, and the two-parametric unified entropy. We specialize these results to quantum channels and non-Hermitian evolutions. In the first case, the QSL depends on the Kraus operators related to the quantum channel, while in the second case the speed limit is recast in terms of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. To illustrate these findings, we consider a single-qubit state evolving under the (i) amplitude damping channel, and (ii) the nonunitary dynamics generated by a parity-time-reversal symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. The QSL is nonzero at earlier times, while it becomes loose as the smallest eigenvalue of the evolved state approaches zero. Furthermore, we investigate the interplay between unified entropies and speed limits for the reduced dynamics of quantum many-body systems. The unified entropy is upper bounded by the quantum fluctuations of the Hamiltonian of the system, while the QSL is nonzero when entanglement is created by the nonunitary evolution. Finally, we apply these results to the XXZ model and verify that the QSL asymptotically decreases as the system size increases. Our results find applications to nonequilibrium thermodynamics, quantum metrology, and equilibration of many-body systems.

Enhancing the fidelity of joint remote state preparation by weak measurement

In this paper, the technique of weak measurement is employed in order to enhance the fidelity of joint remote state preparation (JRSP) protocol under decoherence. We design a quantum circuit of joint remote preparation of a single-qubit state through a GHZ state. Then, we analytically derive the average fidelity of the JRSP protocol under four types of noise usually encountered in real-world implementations of quantum communication protocols, i.e. the phase-flip, depolarizing, amplitude-damping and bit-flip noise. Our study shows that the application of weak measurement and measurement reversal could enhance the average fidelity of the JRSP process under the influence of phase-flip, depolarizing, amplitude-damping noise for most values of the decoherence parameters. If the JRSP process suffers from the bit-flip noise, the weak measurement technique is not useful for increasing the average fidelity.

Deterministic controlled bidirectional remote state preparation in dissipative environments

It is a significant subject to explore effective quantum communication protocol and enhance the efficiency of the transmission process in noisy environments. In this paper, we investigate the bidirectional controlled remote preparation of an arbitrary single-qubit state in the presence of dissipative environments by using two EPR states as the entanglement source. We first construct the quantum circuit of our scheme by means of unitary matrix decomposition procedure, then the effects of the Markovian and non-Markovian environmental noises acting on the EPR states are considered through the analytical derivation and numerical calculations of the corresponding average fidelity. Moreover, we adopt two methods of weak measurement reversal (WMR) and detuning modulation to improve the average fidelity. Our results show that the average fidelity can be remarkably enhanced under appropriate conditions of the WMR strength and the detuning. Compared with the average fidelity behaviors in dissipative environments, it is also shown that the two methods for fidelity improvement are more efficient in the non-Markovian regime than in the Markovian regime.

Quantum sharing of two unknown single-qubit states by using a six-qubit entangled state

Owing to the advantages of entanglement, in this work, an efficient and simple quantum sharing of two unknown state (QSTUS) protocol based on a six-qubit entangled state as the quantum channel is proposed. During the procession of the protocol, sender Alleyn possesses two unknown quantum states, at the same time, she wishes her four agents to share her quantum states. Hence, Alleyn implements two Bell basis measurements on her qubits, meanwhile the appointed controllers make a single-qubit measurement on her own qubit. Applying the suitable unitary operations, the state receivers can recover the original states. Analysis shows that only if all agents cooperate with each other, the proposed protocol QSTUS will be realized easily and successfully.

The rotation scheme of quantum states based on EPR pairs

In this paper, we give a further discussion of short-distance teleportation. We propose bidirectional, rotation and cyclic rotation teleportation schemes for short-distance participants, respectively. In our bidirectional transmission scheme, the quantum channel is still an EPR pair and an auxiliary qubit in the ground state [Formula: see text], and two participants can transmit an unknown single-qubit state to each other. In the rotation and cyclic rotation schemes, bidirectional transmission is performed between two adjacent participants in turn. The unknown state qubits of the participants collapse into the ground state after one bidirectional transmission, and can be used as auxiliary qubits in subsequent bidirectional transmission. After a complete state rotation, each participant has held the unknown state of the other participants, and the last one owned by the participant is still the original unknown state. Although the schemes we proposed are applicable to a small range of transmission, they have certain advantages in saving quantum resources.

Measurement-based universal blind quantum computation with minor resources

Blind quantum computation (BQC) enables a client with less quantum computational ability to delegate her quantum computation to a server with strong quantum computational power while preserving the client's privacy. Generally, many-qubit entangled states are often used to complete BQC tasks. But for a large-scale entangled state, it is difficult to be described since its Hilbert space dimension is increasing exponentially. Furthermore, the number of entangled qubits is limited in experiment of existing works. To tackle this problem, in this paper we propose a universal BQC protocol based on measurement with minor resources, where the trap technology is adopted to verify correctness of the server's measurement outcomes during computation and testing process. In our model there are two participants, a client who prepares initial single-qubit states and a server that performs universal quantum computation. The client is almost classical since she does not require any quantum computational power, quantum memory. To realize the client's universal BQC, we construct an $m\times n$ latticed state composed of six-qubit cluster states and eight-qubit cluster states, which needs less qubits than the brickwork state. Finally, we analyze and prove the blindness, correctness, universality and verifiability of our proposed BQC protocol.

Quantum private comparison of arbitrary single qubit states based on swap test

By using swap test, a quantum private comparison (QPC) protocol of arbitrary single qubit states with a semi-honest third party is proposed. The semi-honest third party (TP) is required to help two participants perform the comparison. She can record intermediate results and do some calculations in the whole process of the protocol execution, but she cannot conspire with any of participants. In the process of comparison, the TP cannot get two participants’ private information except the comparison results. According to the security analysis, the proposed protocol can resist both outsider attacks and participants’ attacks. Compared with the existing QPC protocols, the proposed one does not require any entanglementswapping technology, but it can compare two participants’ qubits by performing swap test, which is easier to implement with current technology. Meanwhile, the proposed protocol can compare secret integers. It encodes secret integers into the amplitude of quantum state rather than transfer them as binary representations, and the encoded quantum state is compared by performing the swap test. Additionally, the proposed QPC protocol is extended to the QPC of arbitrary single qubit states by using multi-qubit swap test.

Measurement-based multipartite entanglement inflation

Generating entanglement between more parties is one of the central tasks and challenges in the backdrop of building quantum technologies. Here we propose a measurement-based protocol for producing multipartite entangled states which can be later fed into some network for realizing suitable quantum protocols. We consider weak entangling measurement on two parties as the basic unit of operation to create entanglement between more parties starting from an entangled state with a lesser number of parties and auxiliary systems in the form of a single-qubit or entangled state itself. We call the introduced expansion procedure, "multipartite entanglement inflation". In the context of inflating bipartite entanglement to more number of parties, surprisingly, maximally entangled states as inputs turn out to be worse than that of the non-maximally entangled states, Haar uniformly generated pure states having a moderate amount of entanglement and the Werner state with a certain threshold noise. We also report that the average multipartite entanglement created from the initial Greenberger Horne Zeilinger- and the W- class states are almost same. Interestingly, we also observe that for Haar uniformly generated pure states, unentangled auxiliary systems are sometimes more advantageous than the protocol with multiple copies of the initial entangled states.

Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Mutual Authentication using a Single Basis

In this paper, we propose a new theoretical scheme for quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) with user authentication. Different from the previous QSDC protocols, the present protocol uses only one orthogonal basis of single-qubit states to encode the secret message. Moreover, this is a one-time and one-way communication protocol, which uses qubits prepared in a randomly chosen arbitrary basis, to transmit the secret message. We discuss the security of the proposed protocol against some common attacks and show that no eaves-dropper can get any information from the quantum and classical channels. We have also studied the performance of this protocol under realistic device noise. We have executed the protocol in IBMQ Armonk device and proposed a repetition code based protection scheme that requires minimal overhead.

Improved Superconducting Qubit State Readout by Path InterferenceSupported by the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Science, the Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information of the Ministry of Education of China through the Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11874235), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2016YFA0301902

High fidelity single shot qubit state readout is essential for many quantum information processing protocols. In superconducting quantum circuit, the qubit state is usually determined by detecting the dispersive frequency shift of a microwave cavity from either transmission or reflection. We demonstrate the use of constructive interference between the transmitted and reflected signal to optimize the qubit state readout, with which we find a better resolved state discrimination and an improved qubit readout fidelity. As a simple and convenient approach, our scheme can be combined with other qubit readout methods based on the discrimination of cavity photon states to further improve the qubit state readout.

Change-over switch for quantum states transfer with topological channels in a circuit-QED lattice

We propose schemes to realize robust quantum states transfer between distant resonators using the topological edge states of a one-dimensional circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED) lattice. Analyses show that the distribution of edge states can be regulated accordingly with the on-site defects added on the resonators. And we can achieve different types of quantum state transfer without adjusting the number of lattices. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the on-site defects can be used as a change-over switch for high-fidelity single-qubit and two-qubit quantum states transfer. This work provides a viable prospect for flexible quantum state transfer in solid-state topological quantum system.

Asymmetric bidirectional quantum teleportation via six-qubit partially entangled state

In this paper, an asymmetric bidirectional controlled quantum teleportation via a six-qubit partially entangled state is given, in which Alice wants to transmit a two-qubit entangled state to Bob and Bob wants to transmit a single-qubit state to Alice on the same time. Although the six-qubit state as quantum channel is partially entangled, the teleportation is implemented deterministically. Furthermore, only Bell-state measurements, single-qubit measurements and some unitary operations are needed in the scheme.

Bidirectional remote state preparation in noisy environment assisted by weak measurement

By using special single-qubit measurement bases, we first proposed a bidirectional remote state preparation (BRSP) scheme to prepare two arbitrary single-qubit states in a noiseless quantum channel. Then, we modified it to a joint BRSP scheme and generalized it to prepare multi-qubit states. Meanwhile, we discussed the preparation fidelity of the scheme under the simulation of amplitude damping (AD) noise. In addition, we employed the weak measurement and its reversing measurements for the BRSP scheme and obtained higher fidelity of preparation results. Finally, through numerical simulation, we compared and analyzed the preparation fidelities under the above two conditions, the results of which showed that the weak measurement method was helpful in improving the proposed BRSP in the AD noise channel.

Practically secure quantum position verification

We discuss quantum position verification (QPV) protocols in which the verifiers create and send single-qubit states to the prover. QPV protocols using single-qubit states are known to be insecure against adversaries that share a small number of entangled qubits. We introduce QPV protocols that are practically secure: they only require single-qubit states from each of the verifiers, yet their security is broken if the adversaries sharing an impractically large number of entangled qubits employ teleportation-based attacks. These protocols are a modification of known QPV protocols in which we include a classical random oracle without altering the amount of quantum resources needed by the verifiers. We present a cheating strategy that requires a number of entangled qubits shared among the adversaries that grows exponentially with the size of the classical input of the random oracle.

Reducing the detection of genuine entanglement of n qubits to two qubits

We propose a criterion for the detection of genuine entanglement of pure multiqubit states. To this aim, we define an operator called the losing one qubit operator, which is different from the reduced density operator. The states obtained from a multiqubit state by applying the losing one qubit operator are referred to as its projected states. We show that all of the projected states of a pure product n-qubit state are pure product states provided that it cannot be written as a product of a single qubit state and a genuinely entangled (\(n-1\))-qubit state. We also show that a pure n-qubit state is genuinely entangled provided that the state has at least two genuinely entangled (\(n-1\))-qubit projected states. By repeating the losing process, we reduce the detection of entanglement of pure n-qubit states to the one of pure two-qubit states. Also we write a LISP program for the reduction process.