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The Development and Application of Quantum Masking
Tao Chen1,2, Zhiguo Qu1,2,*, Yi Chen1,2
1 School of Computer & Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
2 Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
* Corresponding Author: Zhiguo Qu. Email:
Journal of Quantum Computing 2020, 2(3), 151-156. https://doi.org/10.32604/jqc.2020.015855
Received 15 November 2020; Accepted 20 December 2020; Issue published 31 December 2020
Abstract
To solve the problem of hiding quantum information in simplified
subsystems, Modi et al. [1] introduced the concept of quantum masking.
Quantum masking is the encoding of quantum information by composite
quantum states in such a way that the quantum information is hidden to the
subsystem and spreads to the correlation of the composite systems. The concept
of quantum masking was developed along with a new quantum impossibility
theorem, the quantum no-masking theorem. The question of whether a quantum
state can be masked has been studied by many people from the perspective of the
types of quantum states, the number of masking participants, and error correction
codes. Others have studied the relationships between maskable quantum states,
the deterministic and probabilistic masking of quantum states, and the problem
of probabilistic masking. Quantum masking techniques have been shown to
outperform previous strategies in quantum bit commitment, quantum multi-party
secret sharing, and so on.
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Cite This Article
T. Chen, Z. Qu and Y. Chen, "The development and application of quantum masking,"
Journal of Quantum Computing, vol. 2, no.3, pp. 151–156, 2020. https://doi.org/10.32604/jqc.2020.015855