{"title":"Lightweight mediated quantum key distribution based on d-level Bell states","authors":"Wen-Wen Hu, She-Xiang Jiang, Ping Fan, Wei Ye","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04875-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04875-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>On the basis of generalized Bell state of <i>d</i>-level quantum system, this paper proposes a novel lightweight mediated quantum key distribution protocol, allowing two restricted participants to establish a shared secret key with the help of a quantum server. The restricted participant only equips with limited quantum capabilities of performing generalized Hadamard operation and measuring single particle in computational basis, i.e., Z-basis, while the quantum server allowed to be dishonest only need prepare the generalized Bell states. Since only one-way quantum communication channel is adopted in the presented protocol, which makes it is automatic secure against to Trojan horse attack, security analysis illustrates that the presented protocol is immune to intercept-resend, measure-resend, and entangle-measure attacks. Comparisons show that both the quantum server and the restricted participant of presented the protocol require lesser quantum capabilities, and it also possesses higher key rate.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145142711","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 QEC codes from cyclic codes over finite chain rings","authors":"Xiaoyan Zhang, Peng Hu","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04868-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04868-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we provide three methods for constructing quantum error-correcting (QEC) codes via the Hermitian or Euclidean sums and hulls of cyclic codes over <i>R</i>, where <span>(R=mathbb {F}_l[gamma ]/langle gamma ^2rangle )</span> with <i>l</i> to be prime power. We define two Gray maps <span>(Psi _1)</span> and <span>(Psi _2)</span>, and study the Hermitian or Euclidean sums and hulls of cyclic codes over <i>R</i>. Under the Gray maps <span>(Psi _1)</span> and <span>(Psi _2)</span>, two Gray map images are obtained for Hermitian or Euclidean sums of cyclic codes, respectively. Then, three new classes of QEC codes are obtained via two Gray map images and the Calderbank–Shor–Steane construction or Quantum construction <i>X</i>. Moreover, the QEC codes constructed are new in the sense that their parameters are different from all the previously known ones.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145142320","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}
Plaban Saha, Manoj Kumar Mandal, Binayak S. Choudhury
{"title":"Hierarchical quantum operation sharing of single- and two-qubit partially unknown quantum operations","authors":"Plaban Saha, Manoj Kumar Mandal, Binayak S. Choudhury","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04867-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04867-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we deal with two problems of quantum operation sharing, which is the remote implementation of quantum operations on qubits held at distant places by one of the many possible receivers. It is a combination of quantum secret sharing and quantum operator teleportation. We perform it on single-qubit and two-qubit systems. The operations are partially unknown and are collected from specific sets of unitary operators. We use maximally entangled states as our quantum resources. Moreover, there is a hierarchy of receivers by which the securities of the protocols are enhanced. We have investigated the performance of one of our protocols under various quantum noise channels, including amplitude damping (AD), phase damping (PD), bit-flip (BF), phase-flip (PF) and depolarizing (DP) channels. The fidelity of the protocol is calculated for each noise type, showing maximum values of 1 in all cases, while the minimum fidelity varies: 0 for AD, BF and PF noise; 0.5 for PD noise; and 0.25 for DP noise. We have simulated one of our protocols on the Qiskit platform. A statistical analysis of the results obtained from the simulation indicates that the standard deviation of the probabilities <span>(P(|0rangle ))</span> and <span>(P(|1rangle ))</span> decreases with increased number of shots.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145142472","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":"Partial blind quantum computation: a framework for selective circuit protection","authors":"Youngkyung Lee, Doyoung Chung","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04865-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04865-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Quantum computing is rapidly advancing toward cloud-based services, raising significant concerns about the privacy and security of computations outsourced to untrusted quantum servers. Universal blind quantum computation (UBQC) protocols enable clients with limited quantum resources to delegate computations while concealing both inputs and circuit details. However, applying UBQC uniformly to an entire quantum circuit incurs additional quantum resources and computational overhead, which can be a significant burden in practical implementations. In many cases, such as Grover’s algorithm, only specific subroutines-like oracles-contain sensitive information, while the rest of the circuit does not require the same level of protection. Therefore, selectively applying UBQC to critical components can enhance computational efficiency while maintaining security. In this work, we propose a selective application of UBQC that targets only the critical components of quantum circuits. By integrating techniques from quantum homomorphic encryption (QHE) and UBQC, our approach secures the sensitive subcircuits while allowing the remaining, non-sensitive portions to be executed more efficiently. In our framework, UBQC-protected sections output quantum states that are encrypted via bit-flip and phase-flip operations, and we devise a mechanism based on selective <i>X</i> and <i>Z</i> gate corrections to seamlessly interface these with unprotected sections. We provide a security analysis demonstrating that our selective UBQC approach preserves universality, correctness, and blindness, and we illustrate its practical advantages through an application to Grover’s algorithm. This work paves the way for more efficient and practical secure quantum computing on near-term devices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145142408","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":"Many-body localization properties of one-dimensional anisotropic spin-1/2 chains","authors":"Taotao Hu, Yuting Li, Jiameng Hong, Dongyan Guo, Xiaodan Li, Kangning Chen","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04860-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04860-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we theoretically investigate the many-body localization (MBL) properties of one-dimensional anisotropic spin-1/2 chains by using the exact matrix diagonalization method. Starting from the Ising spin-1/2 chain, we introduce different forms of external fields and spin coupling interactions, and construct three distinct anisotropic spin-1/2 chain models. The influence of these interactions on the MBL phase transition is systematically explored. We first analyze the eigenstate properties by computing the excited-state fidelity. The results show that MBL phase transitions occur in all three models, and that both the anisotropy parameter and the finite system size significantly affect the critical disorder strength of the transition. Moreover, we calculated the bipartite entanglement entropy of the system, and the critical points determined by the intersection of curves for different system sizes are basically consistent with those obtained from the excited-state fidelity. Then, the dynamical characteristics of the systems are studied through the time evolution of diagonal entropy, local magnetization, and fidelity. These observations further confirm the occurrence of the MBL phase transition and allow for a clear distinction between the ergodic (thermal) phase and the many-body localized phase. Finally, to examine the effect of additional interactions on the transition, we incorporate Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya (DM) interactions into the three models. The results demonstrate that the MBL phase transition still occurs in the presence of DM interactions. However, the anisotropy parameter and finite system size significantly affect the critical disorder strength. Moreover, the critical behavior is somewhat suppressed, indicating that DM interactions tend to inhibit the onset of localization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145142409","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":"Variational quantum eigensolver toward non-bonded interaction system with hardware-efficient ansatz","authors":"Boyang Yan, Jingyuan Li","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04861-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04861-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The electronic structure calculation of multi-molecular non-bonded interaction problem is of vital importance in various biological process, while performing the calculation on quantum computers appears to be challenging and remains largely unexplored. In this work, we study the ground state calculation of homogeneous and heterogeneous hydrogen bond system, i.e., water dimer and water–ammonia complex, under the framework of variational quantum eigensolver with hardware-efficient ansatz (HEA). Also, we propose a general modification scheme on HEA circuit by inverting the second half of the circuit. Our result suggests that it is possible to solve the electronic structure problem of those complicated non-bonded system with modified HEA. It improves the accuracy of ground state calculation, recovers the equilibrium geometry of molecules, and efficiently mitigates the barren plateau problem in HEA. Furthermore, the modified HEA is more capable of preserving the symmetry of Hamiltonian, including electron number, <i>z</i>-spin and total spin number, which are essential for the study of electronic structure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145160691","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":"Robust and macroscopic genuine tripartite entanglement of levitated magnomechanical systems based on a nonlinear optical medium","authors":"Jian-Song Zhang, Wen-Xue Zhong, Guang-Ling Cheng, Ai-Xi Chen","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04859-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04859-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We present a scheme to generate robust and macroscopic genuine tripartite entanglement of a microwave cavity-magnomechanical system with a levitated yttrium iron garnet (YIG) sphere via a nonlinear optical medium. The center-of-mass motion (CM) of the YIG sphere (phonon) is trapped in a harmonic potential. The squeezing of the microwave cavity mode can enhance the coupling constant of the system and the noise of the squeezed cavity mode could be suppressed completely by introducing a broadband-squeezed vacuum environment when its phase is chosen appropriately. Particularly, there is genuine tripartite entanglement between the photon, magnon, and the CM of the YIG sphere which is robust against the thermal fluctuations and independent of the mass and size of the YIG sphere. The present work provides a method to produce robust and macroscopic tripartite entanglement in cavity magnomechanical systems in experiments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145141904","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}
M. Y. Abd-Rabbou, H. Allhibi, F. Aljuaydi, A.-B. A. Mohamed
{"title":"Charging a quantum battery with interacting spin baths in a trio coherent state","authors":"M. Y. Abd-Rabbou, H. Allhibi, F. Aljuaydi, A.-B. A. Mohamed","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04854-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04854-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we study the performance of a quantum battery composed of three non-interacting central qubits, which are charged through interactions with three distinct thermal baths, each bath consisting of interacting qubits governed by an XY Hamiltonian. We utilize the Holstein-Primakoff transformation and thermodynamic limits to map the collective spin operators of the baths to bosonic modes. Additionally, we employ the finite trio coherent state as the initial state for the charging process to explore its impact on the overall system performance. The study focuses on evaluating the stored energy efficiency and the entropy of the charger modes to assess the overall charging performance. By examining the system parameters such as anisotropy, dimension and shift parameters, and the intensity of the trio coherent state, the optimal conditions for efficient energy storage are identified. Our results provided the role of thermodynamic processes and quantum correlations in enhancing the performance of our quantum battery model.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171898","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}
Dharmaraj Ramachandran, Aditya Dubey, Subrahmanyam S. G. Mantha, Radhika Vathsan
{"title":"Robust entanglement measure for mixed quantum states","authors":"Dharmaraj Ramachandran, Aditya Dubey, Subrahmanyam S. G. Mantha, Radhika Vathsan","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04863-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04863-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We introduce an entanglement measure, the Modified Bloch Norm (MBN), for finite-dimensional bipartite mixed states, based on the improved Bloch matrix criteria (Shen et al. in Sci. Rep. 6:1, 2016). MBN is demonstrated to be effective in analyzing the dynamics of bound entanglement-a valuable resource for quantum protocols where free entanglement may not be available. Through examples, we illustrate the applications of MBN in accurately estimating the Entanglement Sudden Death (ESD) time and detecting behavior such as the freezing of entanglement. Additionally, we show that the error rate for entanglement measured using state estimation from a limited number of measurement copies is significantly lower when using MBN compared to negativity. This demonstrates the robustness of MBN under practical constraints.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171897","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":"Enhancing the performance of variational quantum classifiers with hybrid autoencoders","authors":"Georgios Maragkopoulos, Aikaterini Mandilara, Antonia Tsili, Dimitris Syvridis","doi":"10.1007/s11128-025-04864-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11128-025-04864-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Variational quantum circuits (VQC) lie at the forefront of quantum machine learning research. Still, the use of quantum networks for real data processing remains challenging as the number of available qubits cannot accommodate a large dimensionality of data—if the usual angle encoding scenario is used. To achieve dimensionality reduction, Principal Component Analysis is routinely applied as a pre-processing method before the embedding of the classical features on qubits. In this work, we propose an alternative method which reduces the dimensionality of a given dataset by taking into account the specific quantum embedding that comes after. This method aspires to make quantum machine learning with VQCs more versatile and effective on datasets of high dimension. At a second step, we propose a quantum-inspired classical autoencoder model which can be used to encode information in low latent spaces. The power of our proposed models is exhibited via numerical tests. We show that our targeted dimensionality reduction method considerably boosts VQC’s performance, and we also identify cases for which the second model outperforms classical autoencoders in terms of reconstruction loss.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":746,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Information Processing","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11128-025-04864-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145170606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}