Published February 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Eavesdropping of quantum communication from a noninertial frame

Creators

  • 1. Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Apartado Postal 20-364, Mexico D.F. 01000 (Mexico)

Description

We introduce a relativistic version of the quantum encryption protocol by considering two inertial observers who wish to securely transmit quantum information encoded in a free scalar quantum field state forming Minkowski particles. In a nonrelativistic setting a certain amount of shared classical resources is necessary to perfectly encrypt the state. We show that in the case of a uniformly accelerated eavesdropper the communicating parties need to share (asymptotically in the limit of infinite acceleration) just half of the classical resources

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
75
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 022311-022311.5
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39010829
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
COMMUNICATIONS; MINKOWSKI SPACE; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RELATIVISTIC RANGE
Descriptors DEC
CRYPTOGRAPHY; ENERGY RANGE; INFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MECHANICS; SPACE

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