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A Cooperative Quantum Anonymous Transmission with Hybrid Entanglement Swapping

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Motivated by hybrid entanglement swapping, a cooperative protocol for quantum anonymous transmission is proposed. In the protocol, three pairs of hybrid-entangled photons are deployed in the small-scale quantum network, where a photon is traveling from one random participant to another. After performing by entanglement swapping among all participants, the anonymous transmission system is established in a cooperative way. Analysis shows that the proposed scheme achieves the secure anonymity for both sender and receiver. In addition, it can transmit quantum message with high efficiency.

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  1. School of Information Science & Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China

    Zhigang Chen, Xiaoping Lou & Ying Guo

  2. School of Computer Science & Technology, Hunan University of Arts & Science, Changde, 415000, China

    Xiaoping Lou

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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of the Central South University (No. 2012zzts022), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60902044, 61172184), Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department, PRC (No:12C0820), and the bilateral cooperation of the science foundations between China and Korea (NSFC-NRF 61111140391).

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Chen, Z., Lou, X. & Guo, Y. A Cooperative Quantum Anonymous Transmission with Hybrid Entanglement Swapping. Int J Theor Phys 52, 3141–3149 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-013-1606-3

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