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Welcome to The Quantum Protocol Zoo- Explore, Learn, Code and Implement Quantum Protocols

The Quantum Protocol Zoo is an open repository of quantum protocols which provides a medium to explore all such protocols presented in a compressed form in order to communicate with the computer scientists, engineers and physicists on one platform.

• ZOO CURATORS

Elham Kashefi
Shraddha Singh

Getting started

Various functionalities and corresponding protocols for quantum communication (listed in Protocol Library) are presented according to the boxed structures given below. A page on Supplementary Information has been provided for any additional introduction to quantum computation. Various categories have also been used as 'tags' to link several protocols similar in some aspects. Any information on How to Submit or contact can be found in the Navigation menu on the sidebar. Users can leave their helpful comments in the Discussion section of the concerned wiki page.

• Functionality Format

• Functionality Description
  

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A lucid definition of functionality in discussion.
Tags: Any related page or list of protocols is connected by this section

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• Use Case (if available)

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compares security, efficiency and practicality of quantum protocols with its available classical analogues.

• Protocols

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List of different types of example protocol achieving the functionality (Each protocol in this list is written in the format given below)

• Properties

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All properties that should be satisfied by any protocol achieving the concerned functionality and other common terminologies used in all the protocols.

• Discussion
  

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Any issue that could not be addressed or find a place in the above sections or any review paper discussing a feature of various types of protocols related to the functionality.

• Protocol Format

Link to the functionality achieved with a short description of the method used and properties satisfied by a protocol (link). A one line user-friendly description might be included, if possible. Tags: Any related page or list of protocols is connected by this section

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• Model Assumptions Any assumption on the setup for the protocol below is listed in this section.

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• Outline A non-mathematical detailed outline which provides a rough idea of the concerned protocol. A figure is accommodated for most protocols.
  • Figure A figure explicitly describing an example of the protocol outlined.

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• Notations used Connects the non-mathematical outline with further sections.
• Hardware requirements Order of digits related to threshold values, QBit Error Rate (QBER), parameters, etc.. are illustrated in this section.

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• Properties A list of important information extracted from the protocol such as, parameters (threshold values), security claim, success probability, adversarial assumption (see Quantum Adversary Definitions)) etc..

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• Pseudo Code Mathematical step-wise protocol algorithm helpful to write a subroutine.

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• Discussion
  

Any useful information that could not find its place in the above description goes here. Also, some pages on protocols might include short description as below for list of protocols in the same class of functionality and network stage that are easy to interpret after reading the concerned formal description (or are variants of the protocol discussed above):

• Theoretical Papers:
  • How is it different from the above protocol
  • Requirements
  • Security
• Experimental Papers:
  • Which paper or protocol does it implement
  • Benchmark values for this demonstration