Xiang Hao, Yan Chen, Tian-Xi Ren, Jia Tan, Yin-Zhong Wu
{"title":"Quantum energy preservation in a moving Heisenberg-ring quantum battery","authors":"Xiang Hao, Yan Chen, Tian-Xi Ren, Jia Tan, Yin-Zhong Wu","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04847-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04847-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We propose a physical model of a moving quantum battery composed of Heisenberg XXZ interacting atoms in a leaky cavity. By employing the open quantum system method, we demonstrate the optimized quantum work extraction is enhanced by the battery’s speed, interatomic interactions, and the number of atoms. In a spontaneous discharge process, quantum work extraction will decline to a stable value which can be determined by the number of atoms in the battery. Considering the interaction between the quantum battery and the environment, we explore the Markovian or non-Markovian dynamics of quantum work extraction. Due to the preservation of quantum coherence for moving atoms, the manipulation of motion velocity can substantially improve the energy storage near quantum criticality. It is found out that the motion of multipartite quantum battery contributes to inhibiting spontaneous energy dissipation.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145170390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entanglement certification from moments of positive maps","authors":"Qing-Hua Zhang, Xiaoyu Ma, Shao-Ming Fei","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04855-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04855-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Entanglement certification is crucial in physical experiments, particularly when only partial knowledge of the quantum state is available. In this context, we present an entanglement criterion based on positive but not completely positive maps, which eliminates the need to identify eigenvalues of the output state. Notably, the Faddeev-LeVerrier algorithm establishes a relationship between the coefficients of characteristic polynomials and the moments of a matrix. This enables the existence of negative eigenvalues through the moments of the output state. The effectiveness of our criterion relies on the selection of positive maps, similar to the original positive maps criterion.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145170388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A continuous-variable quantum repeater protocol enhanced with multiplexing and thermal noise","authors":"Xin Li, Rigui Zhou, Yu Cai, Ruiqing Xu, Chao Gao, Weibo Gao","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04844-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04844-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The continuous-variable quantum repeater (CVQR) plays a crucial role in continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD). It can largely extend the security distance limit of CV-QKD. Currently, the majority of CVQR designs relies on the use of noiseless linear amplifiers for entanglement distillation. However, practical noiseless linear amplifiers may reduce communication performances and suffer from low success rates due to the truncation noise produced during the amplification. To solve these problems, we propose an improved CVQR protocol assisted by mode multiplexing and thermal noises. The results show the advantage of our protocol: at 100 km, the success probability of our protocol is 0.4330, while that of the original protocol is 0.1390; the key rate under the collective attack is 0.0208 bits/pulse in our protocol, while that of the original protocol is 7.624e<span>(-)</span>06 bits/pulse at 500 km. The CVQR protocol proposed in this work paves the way for long-distance CV-QKD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145170389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantum Vote Based on Quantum Logical Operators","authors":"Xin Sun, Xingchi Su, Xiaoning Bian","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04853-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04853-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study quantum vote in which ballots are represented by not classical but quantum information. Our main aim is to design the quantum analogue of two well-known voting rules in reality: the majority vote and the board vote. We adopt a step-by-step approach. We first design two primitive quantum voting rules, called quantum logical veto (QLV) and quantum logical nomination (QLN). Not only can they be used independently in scenarios where classical veto-like vote and nomination-like vote are applied, but they can also be used as building blocks to construct quantum majority vote. We also use them to define a quantum voting game to show that quantum ballots can achieve something that can never be achieved by classical ballots. The conjunction and disjunction from quantum computational logic are used to define QLV and QLN, which makes them relatively easy to be implemented by the current or near-future technology. To design quantum board vote, we first introduce the quantum weighted average operation and then construct quantum board vote by the combination of quantum weighted average operation and QLN.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145169351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secure and efficient quantum signature scheme based on the controlled unitary operations encryption","authors":"Debnath Ghosh, Soumit Roy, Prithwi Bagchi, Indranil Chakrabarty, Ashok Kumar Das","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04843-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04843-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Quantum digital signatures ensure unforgeable message authenticity and integrity using quantum principles, offering unconditional security against both classical and quantum attacks. They are crucial for secure communication in high-stakes environments, ensuring trust and long-term protection in the quantum era. Nowadays, the majority of arbitrated quantum signature (AQS) protocols encrypt data qubit by qubit using the quantum one-time pad (QOTP). Despite providing robust data encryption, QOTP is not a good fit for AQS because of its susceptibility to many types of attacks. In this work, we present an efficient AQS protocol to encrypt quantum message ensembles using a distinct encryption technique, the chained controlled unitary operations. In contrast with existing protocols, our approach successfully prevents disavowal and forgery attacks. We hope this contributes to advancing future investigations into the development of AQS protocols .</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145167575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New quantum attacks on some Feistel variants","authors":"Qiufu Lan, Jian Zou, Jichen Wei","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04852-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04852-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Simon’s algorithm is a period-finding algorithm that can provide an exponential speedup compared to the classical algorithm. It has already been widely used in the quantum cryptanalysis of some cryptographic primitives. This paper investigates the applications of Simon’s algorithm in the security analysis of several Feistel variants: MARS-F, Skipjack-B-F, 4F-function, and 2F-function schemes. Firstly, we give a 2<i>d</i>-round quantum distinguisher for <i>d</i>-branch MARS-F. Secondly, a <span>((d^2 - 1))</span>-round quantum distinguisher is built for <i>d</i>-branch Skipjack-B-F. Thirdly, we construct a 10-round and a 6-round quantum distinguisher for 4F-function and 2F-function, respectively. Based on these quantum distinguishers, we can build some quantum key-recovery attacks on these Feistel variants. We denote <i>n</i> as the bit length of a branch. In the first place, for 3<i>d</i>-round MARS-F with <i>d</i> branches, a key-recovery attack is constructed with the time complexity of <span>(Oleft( n2^{dn/2}right) )</span>. In the second place, for <span>((d^2 + d - 1))</span>-round Skipjack-B-F with <i>d</i> branches, we present a key-recovery attack with the time complexity of <span>(Oleft( n2^{dn/2}right) )</span>. At last, the key can be recovered with the time complexities of <span>(Oleft( n2^{5n}right) )</span> and <span>(Oleft( n2^{3n/2}right) )</span> for 14-round 4F-function and 8-round 2F-function, respectively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145167571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chaotic dynamics of a quantum duopoly game between public enterprises under Cournot competition","authors":"Longfei Wei, Shouli Wang, Jing Wang","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04848-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04848-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Employing quantum mechanical principles, we construct a dynamic quantum Cournot duopoly game framework involving two public enterprises, characterized by heterogeneous strategic interactions between boundedly rational and adaptive players. Based on this theoretical framework, we first analyze the existence and stability of quantum Nash equilibria in the proposed model. Subsequently, we conduct numerical simulations to demonstrate chaotic dynamics through stability regions, bifurcation and chaos diagrams, phase portraits, and sensitivity to initial conditions. Furthermore, we utilize the delay feedback control method to stabilize the system and suppress chaotic behavior.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145167574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Twin-field quantum key distribution without phase post-selection based on heralded pair-coherent source","authors":"Yuan Lei, Ri-Gui Zhou, Xiao-Xue Zhang, Yun-Hao Feng","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04829-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04829-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Twin-field quantum key distribution protocols and their variants break the linear key rate limit in non-relay scenarios, with without phase post-selection versions further reduce experimental complexity through simplified protocol structures. However, traditional implementations based on weak coherent source are constrained by low single-photon pulse rates and high-vacuum-state noise, limiting key rates and transmission distances. This study proposes a protocol integrating heralded pair-coherent source without phase post-selection quantum key distribution, combined with a four-intensity decoy-state method for optimized parameter estimation. Simulations demonstrate that heralded pair-coherent source without phase post-selection twin-field quantum key distribution achieves a key rate improvement of more than 10 times higher compared to weak coherent source schemes under finite data size, extends transmission distances by over 100 km and maintains robustness in high-loss channels. These breakthroughs validate its practical value for real-world medium-to-long-haul quantum communication scenarios.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145167573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capacities of a two-parameter family of noisy Werner–Holevo channels","authors":"Shayan Roofeh, Vahid Karimipour","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04840-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04840-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In <span>(d=2j+1)</span> dimensions, the Landau–Streater quantum channel is defined on the basis of spin <i>j</i> representation of the <i>su</i>(2) algebra. Only for <span>(j=1)</span>, this channel is equivalent to the Werner–Holevo channel and enjoys covariance properties with respect to the group <i>SU</i>(3). We extend this class of channels to higher dimensions in a way that is based on the Lie algebra <i>so</i>(<i>d</i>) and <i>su</i>(<i>d</i>). As a result, it retains its equivalence to the Werner–Holevo channel in arbitrary dimensions. The resulting channel is covariant with respect to the unitary group <i>SU</i>(<i>d</i>). We then modify this channel in a way that can act as a noisy channel on qudits. The resulting modified channel now interpolates between the identity channel and the Werner–Holevo channel, and its covariance is reduced to the subgroup of orthogonal matrices <i>SO</i>(<i>d</i>). We then investigate some of the properties of the resulting two-parameter family of channels, including their Holevo quantity, entanglement-assisted capacity, the zero-capacity region and a possible lower bound for their quantum capacity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145167570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The performance of quantum battery with Kerr medium","authors":"Shuochen Yang, Weiran Hu, Jiangfeng Tian, Zirong He, Liang Qiu","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04849-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04849-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The performance of an atomic quantum battery interacting with a single cavity mode in the presence of Kerr medium is investigated. The atomic and photonic dissipations are also incorporated into the model. In the scenario without dissipation, suppressing the strength of the Kerr medium enhances both the stored energy and ergotropy. Additionally, increasing the number of photons accelerates the charging process of the battery. It is also found that the entanglement of the battery-charger system is negatively correlated with the battery’s performance. In the scenario with dissipation, the strength of the Kerr medium and the photon number do not affect the steady-state performance of the battery. The atomic decay and the cavity loss competitively influence the steady-state stored energy and ergotropy, both of which reach the maximum value when the cavity loss rate is smaller than the atomic decay rate.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145167572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}