In this review article,we will review the recent process of quantum communications.In the past decades,there are many developments in quantum communication,for instance,quantum key distribution,quantum teleportation,quantum secure direct communication,deterministic secure quantum communication,quantum secret sharing and so on.And we focus our attention on the recent developments in quantum communication protocols.
We propose a practical entanglement concentration protocol （ECP） for a hybrid entangled state using quantum dots and a microcavity coupled system. A hybrid less-entangled state can he concentrated to a most-entangled state with a certain probability using only one ancillary single photon. Moreover, using this protocol, we can also concentrate an arbitrary three-particle less-entangled W state using two ancillary photons and classical communication. The proposed protocols provide us with a useful method to concentrate less-entangled states, which can he implemented with current technology.
Implementation of a nonlocal multi-qubit conditional phase gate is an essential requirement in some quantum infor- mation processing （QIP） tasks. Recently, a novel solid-state cavity quantum electrodynamics （QED） system, in which the nitrogen-vacancy （NV） center in diamond is coupled to a microtoroidal resonator （MTR）, has been proposed as a poten- tial system for hybrid quantum information and computing. By virtue of such systems, we present a scheme to realize a nonlocal N-qubit conditional phase gate directly. Our scheme employs a cavity input-output process and single-photon interference, without the use of any auxiliary entanglement pair or classical communication. Considering the currently available technologies, our scheme might be quite useful among different nodes in quantum networks for large-scaled QIP.
We present an efficient two-step entanglement concentration protocol(ECP)for three-level atoms trapped in one-sided optical micro-cavities in an arbitrary three-particle less-entangled W state,using the coherent state input-output process in low-Q cavity quantum electrodynamics system.In each step of the new proposed protocol,one of the three remote users prepares the auxiliary coherent optical pulses to perform cavity input-output process and then utilizes the standard homodyne measurement to discriminate the final outgoing coherent states.When both of the two steps are successful,remote parties can deterministically concentrate the less-entangled W state atoms to a standard maximally entangled W state.Compared with previous ECPs for W state,this protocol has some advantages and can be widely used in current quantum repeater and some quantum information processing tasks.
We present an entanglement analysis protocol on entangled electron spins using quantum dot(QD)and microcavity coupled system.Each quantum dot is placed in the microcavity and ancilla photon input-output process could be used to check the parity of the quantum dots.After the parity check process,the user only needs to measure the spin direction of the QD spin,and the state information can be readout completely.The feasibility of our scheme and the experimental challenge are discussed by considering currently available techniques.
