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most citedOrthogonal-state-based protocols of quantum key agreement

134 citations · 913 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2025

Swapped Entanglement in High-Dimensional Quantum Systems

S. M. Zangi, Chitra Shukla, Khalid Naseer +1

Entanglement swapping is a fundamental protocol in quantum information processing that enables the distribution of entanglement between distant quantum systems and plays a central…

quant-ph2024

Orthogonal-state-based Measurement Device Independent Quantum Communication

Chitra Shukla, Abhishek Shukla, Symeon Chatzinotas +1

We attempt to propose the first orthogonal-state-based protocols of measurement-device-independent quantum secure direct communication and quantum dialogue employing single basis,…

quant-ph2022★ 39 cited

Entanglement swapping and swapped entanglement

S. M. Zangi, Chitra Shukla, Atta Ur Rahman +1

Entanglement swapping is gaining widespread attention due to its application in entanglement distribution among different parts of quantum appliances. We investigate the entangleme…

quant-ph2020

Entanglement concentration protocols for GHZ-type entangled coherent state based on linear optics

Mitali Sisodia, Chitra Shukla

We proposed two entanglement concentration protocols (ECPs) to obtain maximally entangled Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ)-type entangled coherent state (ECS) from the correspondi…

quant-ph2020★ 10 cited

Hierarchical Quantum Network using Hybrid Entanglement

Chitra Shukla, Priya Malpani, Kishore Thapliyal

The advent of a new kind of entangled state known as hybrid entangled state, i.e., entanglement between different degrees of freedom, makes it possible to perform various quantum c…

quant-ph2019

Linear optics based entanglement concentration protocols for Cluster-type entangled coherent state

Mitali Sisodia, Chitra Shukla, Gui-Lu Long

We proposed two linear optics based entanglement concentration protocols (ECPs) to obtain maximally entangled 4-mode Cluster-type entangled coherent state (ECS) from less (partiall…

quant-ph2017★ 129 cited

Semi-quantum communication: Protocols for key agreement, controlled secure direct communication and dialogue

Chitra Shukla, Kishore Thapliyal, Anirban Pathak

Semi-quantum protocols that allow some of the users to remain classical are proposed for a large class of problems associated with secure communication and secure multiparty comput…

quant-ph2017★ 21 cited

Quantum Conference

Anindita Banerjee, Kishore Thapliyal, Chitra Shukla +1

A notion of quantum conference is introduced in analogy with the usual notion of a conference that happens frequently in today's world. Quantum conference is defined as a multipart…

quant-ph2016★ 46 cited

Asymmetric Quantum Dialogue in Noisy Environment

Anindita Banerjee, Chitra Shukla, Kishore Thapliyal +2

A notion of asymmetric quantum dialogue (AQD) is introduced. Conventional protocols of quantum dialogue are essentially symmetric as both the users (Alice and Bob) can encode the s…

quant-ph2016★ 60 cited

Hierarchical Joint Remote State Preparation in Noisy Environment

Chitra Shukla, Kishore Thapliyal, Anirban Pathak

A novel scheme for quantum communication having substantial applications in practical life is designed and analyzed. Specifically, we have proposed a hierarchical counterpart of th…

quant-ph2015

Maximal entanglement concentration for -qubit states

Anindita Banerjee, Chitra Shukla, Anirban Pathak

We propose two schemes for concentration of -qubit entangled states that can be written in the form of where $|φ_{0…

quant-ph2014

Comment on "Teleportation of Three-Qubit State via Six-qubit Cluster State"

Anindita Banerjee, Chitra Shukla

Recently Yu and Sun [Int. J. Theor. Phys. DOI 10.1007/s10773-014-2360-x] have presented probabilistic teleportation of 3-qubit cat state via 6-qubit cluster state. The success prob…

quant-ph2014★ 49 cited

A Simplified Hierarchical Dynamic Quantum Secret Sharing Protocol with Added Features

Sandeep Mishra, Chitra Shukla, Anirban Pathak +2

Generalizing the notion of dynamic quantum secret sharing (DQSS), a simplified protocol for hierarchical dynamic quantum secret sharing (HDQSS) is proposed and it is shown that the…

quant-ph2014★ 89 cited

Controlled bidirectional remote state preparation in noisy environment: A generalized view

Vishal Sharma, Chitra Shukla, Subhashish Banerjee +1

It is shown that a realistic, controlled bidirectional remote state preparation is possible using a large class of entangled quantum states having a particular structure. Existing…

quant-ph2014★ 14 cited

Secure Quantum Communication with Orthogonal States

Chitra Shukla, Anindita Banerjee, Anirban Pathak +1

In majority of protocols of secure quantum communication (such as, BB84, B92, etc.), the unconditional security of the protocols are obtained by using conjugate coding (two or more…

quant-ph2014★ 32 cited

Protocols and quantum circuits for implementing entanglement concentration in cat state, GHZ-like state and 9 families of 4-qubit entangled states

Chitra Shukla, Anindita Banerjee, Anirban Pathak

Three entanglement concentration protocols (ECPs) are proposed. The first ECP and a modified version of that are shown to be useful for the creation of maximally entangled cat and…

quant-ph2013★ 134 cited

Orthogonal-state-based protocols of quantum key agreement

Chitra Shukla, Nasir Alam, Anirban Pathak

Two orthogonal-state-based protocols of quantum key agreement (QKA) are proposed. The first protocol of QKA proposed here is designed for two-party QKA, whereas the second protocol…

quant-ph2013★ 31 cited

Direct quantum communication without actual transmission of the message qubits

Chitra Shukla, Anirban Pathak

Recently an orthogonal state based protocol of direct quantum communication without actual transmission of particles is proposed by Salih \emph{et al.}{[}Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{1…

quant-ph2013★ 99 cited

Bidirectional controlled teleportation by using 5-qubit states: A generalized view

Chitra Shukla, Anindita Banerjee, Anirban Pathak

Recently bidirectional controlled perfect teleportation using 5-qubit states are reported in (Int. J. Theor. Phys. (2013) DOI 10.1007/s10773-013-1484-8 and ibid, (2013) DOI 10.1007…

quant-ph2013★ 60 cited

Hierarchical quantum communication

Chitra Shukla, Anirban Pathak

A general approach to study the hierarchical quantum information splitting (HQIS) is proposed and the same is used to systematically investigate the possibility of realizing HQIS u…

quant-ph2012★ 29 cited

Beyond the Goldenberg-Vaidman protocol: Secure and efficient quantum communication using arbitrary, orthogonal, multi-particle quantum states

Chitra Shukla, Anirban Pathak, R. Srikanth

It is shown that maximally efficient protocols for secure direct quantum communications can be constructed using any arbitrary orthogonal basis. This establishes that no set of qua…

quant-ph2012★ 19 cited

Improved protocols of secure quantum communication using W states

Chitra Shukla, Anindita Banerjee, Anirban Pathak

Recently, Hwang et al. [Eur. Phys. J. D. 61, 785 (2011)] and Yuan et al. [Int. J. Theo. Phys. 50, 2403 (2011)] have proposed two efficient protocols of secure quantum communication…

quant-ph2012★ 52 cited

On the group theoretic structure of a class of quantum dialogue protocols

Chitra Shukla, Vivek Kothari, Anindita Banerjee +1

Intrinsic symmetry of the existing protocols of quantum dialogue are explored. It is shown that if we have a set of mutually orthogonal -qubit states {\normalsize $\{|ϕ_{0}>,|ϕ_…