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SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY
Volume 60, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11433-017-9085-0
Keywords
quantum cryptography; quantum private query; decoherence-free states; collective noise
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61572053, 61671087, 61602019]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [4162005, 4152038]
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Quantum channel noise may cause the user to obtain a wrong answer and thus misunderstand the database holder for existing QKD-based quantum private query (QPQ) protocols. In addition, an outside attacker may conceal his attack by exploiting the channel noise. We propose a new, robust QPQ protocol based on four-qubit decoherence-free (DF) states. In contrast to existing QPQ protocols against channel noise, only an alternative fixed sequence of single-qubit measurements is needed by the user (Alice) to measure the received DF states. This property makes it easy to implement the proposed protocol by exploiting current technologies. Moreover, to retain the advantage of flexible database queries, we reconstruct Alice's measurement operators so that Alice needs only conditioned sequences of single-qubit measurements.
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