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An Efficient Quantum Key Distribution Protocol with Dense Coding on Single Photons

Hao Xiao^1,*, Jun Zhang², Wenhua Huang³, Mi Zhou⁴, Wencheng Hu⁵

1 School of Information Engineering, Huzhou University, Huzhou, 313000, China.
2 School of Information Engineering, Jiangsu Maritime Institute, Nanjing, 21100, China.
3 College of Science, Huzhou University, Huzhou, 313000, China.
4 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond Virginia, 23284, USA.
5 College of Science, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, 450007, China.

*Corresponding Author: Hao Xiao. Email: .

Computers, Materials & Continua 2019, 61(2), 759-775. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2019.06085

Abstract

Combined with the dense coding mechanism and the bias-BB84 protocol, an efficient quantum key distribution protocol with dense coding on single photons (QDKD-SP) is proposed. Compared with the BB84 or bias-BB84 protocols based on single photons, our QDKD-SP protocol has a higher capacity without increasing the difficulty of its experiment implementation as each correlated photon can carry two bits of useful information. Compared with the quantum dense key distribution (QDKD) protocol based on entangled states, our protocol is more feasible as the preparation and the measurement of a single-photon quantum state is not difficult with current technology. In addition, our QDKD-SP protocol is theoretically proved to be secure against the intercept-resend attack.

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