A survey of important issues in quantum computing and communications

Z Yang, M Zolanvari, R Jain - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven by the rapid progress in quantum hardware, recent years have witnessed a furious
race for quantum technologies in both academia and industry. Universal quantum …

Experimental quantum conference key agreement

M Proietti, J Ho, F Grasselli, P Barrow, M Malik… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Quantum networks will provide multinode entanglement enabling secure communication on
a global scale. Traditional quantum communication protocols consume pair-wise …

Quantum network: security assessment and key management

H Zhou, K Lv, L Huang, X Ma - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an extension of quantum key distribution, secure communication among multiple users is
a basic task in a quantum network. When the quantum network structure becomes …

Statistical properties of the quantum internet

S Brito, A Canabarro, R Chaves, D Cavalcanti - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Steady technological advances are paving the way for the implementation of the quantum
internet, a network of locations interconnected by quantum channels. Here we propose a …

High key rate quantum conference key agreement with unconditional security

XY Cao, YS Lu, Z Li, J Gu, HL Yin, ZB Chen - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantum cryptography is a major ingredient of the future quantum internet that promises
various secure communication tasks. Quantum conference key agreement (CKA) is an …

Multi-user distillation of common randomness and entanglement from quantum states

F Salek, A Winter - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We construct new protocols for the tasks of converting noisy multipartite quantum
correlations into noiseless classical and quantum ones using local operations and classical …

[PDF][PDF] Policies for elementary link generation in quantum networks

S Khatri - arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.03193, 2020 - researchgate.net
Protocols in a quantum network involve multiple parties performing actions on their quantum
systems in a carefully orchestrated manner over time in order to accomplish a given task …

Towards a general framework for practical quantum network protocols

S Khatri - 2021 - search.proquest.com
The quantum internet is one of the frontiers of quantum information science. It will
revolutionize the way we communicate and do other tasks, and it will allow for tasks that are …

Distillation of secret key and GHZ states from multipartite mixed states

F Salek, A Winter - 2022 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider two related problems of extracting correlation from a given multipartite mixed
quantum state: the first is the distillation of a conference key when the state is shared …

Quantum Conference Key Agreement

F Grasselli, F Grasselli - Quantum Cryptography: From Key Distribution to …, 2021 - Springer
Quantum conference key agreement (CKA) extends the notion of quantum key distribution
(QKD) to the multipartite scenario. We introduce CKA in Sect. 4.1 and present the multipartite …