Quantum Zero-Error Secrecy Capacity

Abstract

Aiming at transmitting secret classical messages through noisy quantum channels, the present work proposes quantum codes in which no decoding erros occur nor information leakage out to a wiretapper. These codes are based on error- free codes and on decoherence-free subspaces and subsystems. A consequence of such proposition is the rise of the quantum zero-error secrecy capacity (ZESC), the maximum rate in which information can be transmitted through a noisy quantum channel using such codes with unconditional security. We also propose a graph-theoretic approach to obtain ZESC, and show that, in certain situations, this capacity is single-letter characterized.

Publication
In: IV Workshop-School of Quantum Computation and Information. Fortaleza, Ceará.
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