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Hiding bits in bell states.

B M Terhal1, D P DiVincenzo, D W Leung

  • 1IBM Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|June 21, 2001
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We developed a secure quantum bit hiding scheme using Bell states, resilient to local operations. Information gain is exponentially small, ensuring data security for multiple bits.

Area of Science:

  • Quantum Information Science
  • Quantum Cryptography
  • Quantum Communication

Background:

  • Quantum key distribution (QKD) relies on secure information sharing.
  • Bell states are fundamental entangled quantum states with unique properties.
  • Existing quantum information hiding schemes face security challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel scheme for hiding classical bits within quantum states.
  • To ensure the security of hidden bits against eavesdropping and local operations.
  • To provide an efficient method for preparing the necessary quantum states.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing Bell states for encoding classical bits.
  • Analyzing information leakage under local quantum operations and classical communication (LOCC).

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  • Proving the exponential security of the proposed scheme based on the number of qubits.

    • Main Results:

    • Demonstrated that the information gain about a hidden bit is exponentially small with the number of qubits (n).
    • Showed that the scheme can hide multiple bits with arbitrarily small information leakage.
    • Presented an efficient, low-entanglement method for preparing shared quantum states.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed scheme offers robust security for hiding classical information in quantum states.
    • The scheme is implementable with current quantum optics technology.
    • This work advances secure quantum communication protocols.