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Three-particle deterministic secure and high bit-rate direct quantum communication protocol

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A scheme for deterministic secure and high bit-rate direct communication without resorting to a distinct control interval is proposed. It utilizes three entangled qubits, and presents higher bit transfer rate of information and higher security. The security of protocol is asserted by introducing a security control for each transferred bit. The protocol is investigated for a class of individual attacks and it is explicitly showed that the protocol has a high security even in the presence of channel loss.

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  1. Department of Physics, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran

    Soudeh Jahanshahi & Mohammad Hossein Zandi

  2. Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Alireza Bahrampour

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Jahanshahi, S., Bahrampour, A. & Zandi, M.H. Three-particle deterministic secure and high bit-rate direct quantum communication protocol. Quantum Inf Process 12, 2441–2451 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-013-0543-7

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