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Starting a new era for quantum technologies: In conversation with the deputy EiCs and the managing editor 开启量子技术的新时代：与副 EiC 和总编辑对话

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IET Quantum Communication Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1049/qtc2.12108

Ruiqi Liu, Haris Pervaiz, Sophie Robinson

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Guest Editorial: Quantum industry: Applications in quantum communication (Quantum.Tech Europe 2022) 特邀社论：量子工业：量子通信中的应用（2022 年欧洲量子技术展）

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IET Quantum Communication Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1049/qtc2.12104

Debashis De, Andrew Lord

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Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning for quantum communication applications 人工智能和机器学习在量子通信应用方面的进展

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IET Quantum Communication Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI: 10.1049/qtc2.12094

Mhlambululi Mafu

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End-to-end demonstration for CubeSatellite quantum key distribution 立方体卫星量子密钥分发的端到端演示

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IET Quantum Communication Pub Date : 2024-04-14 DOI: 10.1049/qtc2.12093

Peide Zhang, Jaya Sagar, Elliott Hastings, Milan Stefko, Siddarth Joshi, John Rarity

{"title":"End-to-end demonstration for CubeSatellite quantum key distribution","authors":"Peide Zhang, Jaya Sagar, Elliott Hastings, Milan Stefko, Siddarth Joshi, John Rarity","doi":"10.1049/qtc2.12093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/qtc2.12093","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum key distribution (QKD) provides a method of ensuring security using the laws of physics, avoiding the risks inherent in cryptosystems protected by computational complexity. Here, the authors investigate the feasibility of satellite-based quantum key exchange using low-cost compact nano-satellites. The first prototype of system level quantum key distribution aimed at the Cube satellite scenario is demonstrated. It consists of a transmitter payload, a ground receiver and simulated free space channel to verify the timing and synchronisation (T&S) scheme designed for QKD and the required high loss tolerance of both QKD and T&S channels. The transmitter is designed to be deployed on various up-coming nano-satellite missions in the UK and internationally. The effects of channel loss, background noise, gate width and mean photon number on the secure key rate (SKR) and quantum bit error rate (QBER) are discussed. The authors also analyse the source of QBER and establish the relationship between effective signal noise ratio (ESNR) and noise level, signal strength, gating window and other parameters as a reference for SKR optimisation. The experiment shows that it can tolerate the 40 dB loss expected in space to ground QKD and with small adjustment decoy states can be achieved. The discussion offers valuable insight not only for the design and optimisation of miniature low-cost satellite-based QKD systems but also any other short or long range free space QKD on the ground or in the air.","PeriodicalId":100651,"journal":{"name":"IET Quantum Communication","volume":"5 3","pages":"291-302"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/qtc2.12093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142174274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Successive data injection in conditional quantum GAN applied to time series anomaly detection 条件量子 GAN 中的连续数据注入应用于时间序列异常检测

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IET Quantum Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-27 DOI: 10.1049/qtc2.12088

Benjamin Kalfon, Soumaya Cherkaoui, Jean-Frédéric Laprade, Ola Ahmad, Shengrui Wang

{"title":"Successive data injection in conditional quantum GAN applied to time series anomaly detection","authors":"Benjamin Kalfon, Soumaya Cherkaoui, Jean-Frédéric Laprade, Ola Ahmad, Shengrui Wang","doi":"10.1049/qtc2.12088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/qtc2.12088","url":null,"abstract":"Classical GAN architectures have shown interesting results for solving anomaly detection problems in general and for time series anomalies in particular, such as those arising in communication networks. In recent years, several quantum GAN (QGAN) architectures have been proposed in the literature. When detecting anomalies in time series using QGANs, huge challenges arise due to the limited number of qubits compared to the size of the data. To address these challenges, a new high-dimensional encoding approach, named Successive Data Injection (SuDaI) is proposed. In this approach, SuDaI explores a larger portion of the quantum state, compared to the conventional angle encoding method used predominantly in the literature. This is achieved through repeated data injections into the quantum state. SuDaI encoding allows the authors to adapt the QGAN for anomaly detection with network data of a much higher dimensionality than with the existing known QGANs implementations. In addition, SuDaI encoding applies to other types of high-dimensional time series and can be used in contexts beyond anomaly detection and QGANs, opening up therefore multiple fields of application.","PeriodicalId":100651,"journal":{"name":"IET Quantum Communication","volume":"5 3","pages":"269-281"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/qtc2.12088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142174252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A novel quantum key distribution resistant against large-pulse attacks 可抵御大脉冲攻击的新型量子密钥分发技术

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IET Quantum Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1049/qtc2.12089

Keaotshepha Karabo, Comfort Sekga, Connor Kissack, Mhlambululi Mafu, Francesco Petruccione

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Quantum computer based feature selection in machine learning 机器学习中基于量子计算机的特征选择

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IET Quantum Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-05 DOI: 10.1049/qtc2.12086

Gerhard Hellstern, Vanessa Dehn, Martin Zaefferer

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An efficient quantum algorithm for ensemble classification using bagging 使用袋集技术进行集合分类的高效量子算法

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IET Quantum Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-02 DOI: 10.1049/qtc2.12087

Antonio Macaluso, Luca Clissa, Stefano Lodi, Claudio Sartori

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Multi-hop joint remote state preparation of general hybrid entangled multi-qudit states via distinct Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen channels 通过不同的爱因斯坦-波多尔斯基-罗森通道对一般混合纠缠多量子态进行多跳联合远程状态制备

IET Quantum Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.1049/qtc2.12084

Zongyi Li, Yuzhen Wei, Min Jiang

{"title":"Multi-hop joint remote state preparation of general hybrid entangled multi-qudit states via distinct Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen channels","authors":"Zongyi Li, Yuzhen Wei, Min Jiang","doi":"10.1049/qtc2.12084","DOIUrl":"10.1049/qtc2.12084","url":null,"abstract":"Joint Remote State Preparation provides a useful way to securely transfer the known quantum states to the distant nodes. However, the limitation of resources often leads to the quantum channels constructed by distributed entangled pairs being incompatible with the transmitted states. In order to overcome this problem, a novel Joint Remote State Preparation protocol was proposed for transmitting general multi-qudit states over quantum networks, providing a promising pathway to utilise the available Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) channels with different levels. Several scenarios under noisy environments were discussed and some properties of the fidelity when transmitting the multi-qudit state were demonstrated. It was demonstrated that both the prepared state and the kind of the noises could restrict the number of the participant nodes. Our scheme leverages the existing quantum resources, which addresses the issue of insufficient entanglement resources. This approach is easily adaptable to other quantum network structures, offering a potential solution for constructing a universal quantum network.","PeriodicalId":100651,"journal":{"name":"IET Quantum Communication","volume":"5 2","pages":"173-184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/qtc2.12084","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140491675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Impact of fragmentation in quantum signal channel of quantum key distribution enabled optical networks 启用量子密钥分发的光网络中量子信号信道碎片的影响

IET Quantum Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-12 DOI: 10.1049/qtc2.12083

Purva Sharma, Vimal Bhatia, Shashi Prakash

{"title":"Impact of fragmentation in quantum signal channel of quantum key distribution enabled optical networks","authors":"Purva Sharma, Vimal Bhatia, Shashi Prakash","doi":"10.1049/qtc2.12083","DOIUrl":"10.1049/qtc2.12083","url":null,"abstract":"In QKD-enabled optical networks (QKD-enabled ONs), fragmentation is one of the serious issues which can be mitigated through appropriate management of network resources. Thus, efficient allocation of network resources during routing and resource assignment is important to minimise the impact of time slot fragmentation in the quantum signal channel (QSCh) of QKD-enabled ONs. The authors address the fragmentation problem in the QSCh and propose a new fragmentation-suppressed routing and resource assignment (FS-RRA) approach. To evaluate the performance and to analyse the effect of time slot fragmentation in QSCh of QKD-enabled ONs, the proposed FS-RRA approach is compared with two existing resource assignment approaches, namely, the first-fit (FF) and random-fit (RF) for two different networks. Simulation results show that the proposed approach reduces fragmentation by 2.97% and 6.69% for NSFNET and 1.77% and 5.91% for UBN24 in terms of external fragmentation compared to FF and RF, respectively. Furthermore, the proposed approach reduces blocking by 4.03% and 14.28% for NSFNET and 2.61% and 13.44% for UBN24 and improves resource utilisation up to 3.44% and 5.96% for NSFNET and 3.08% and 7.64% for UBN24 compared to FF and RF, respectively.","PeriodicalId":100651,"journal":{"name":"IET Quantum Communication","volume":"5 2","pages":"164-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/qtc2.12083","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139532928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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