AUTHOR=Yang You-Feng , Duan Long-Zhen , Qiu Tao-Rong , Xie Xu-Ming 

TITLE=Controlled Quantum Secure Direct Communication Based on Four-Qubit Cluster States and Quantum Search Algorithm

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics

VOLUME=10

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2022.875441

DOI=10.3389/fphy.2022.875441

ISSN=2296-424X

ABSTRACT=<p>A controlled quantum secure direct communication protocol based on four-qubit cluster states and quantum search algorithm is put forward, in which four users, a sender, a receiver and two controllers, are involved in achieving the secure transmission of secret message. The four-qubit cluster state can ensure the feasibility and security of the protocol because of its large persistency of entanglement. Meanwhile, the idea of quantum search algorithm is used to accomplish the task of encoding and decoding secret message. The proposed protocol can successfully avoid the information leakage problem and resist some common attacks including the outsider attacks and the internal attacks, and its qubit efficiency is up to 20%. Furthermore, compared with the previous quantum secure direct communication protocols, it can effectively resist the attacks from the dishonest receiver.</p>