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Quantum Private Comparison: A Review
As an important branch of quantum secure multiparty computation, quantum
private comparison (QPC) has attracted more and more attention recently. In
this paper, according to the quantum implementation mechanism that these
protocols used, we divide these protocols into three categories: The quantum
cryptography QPC, the superdense coding QPC, and the entanglement swapping QPC.
And then, a more in-depth analysis on the research progress, design idea, and
substantive characteristics of corresponding QPC categories is carried out,
respectively. Finally, the applications of QPC and quantum secure multi-party
computation issues are discussed and, in addition, three possible research
mainstream directions are pointed out
Solving Low-Dose CT Reconstruction via GAN with Local Coherence
The Computed Tomography (CT) for diagnosis of lesions in human internal
organs is one of the most fundamental topics in medical imaging. Low-dose CT,
which offers reduced radiation exposure, is preferred over standard-dose CT,
and therefore its reconstruction approaches have been extensively studied.
However, current low-dose CT reconstruction techniques mainly rely on
model-based methods or deep-learning-based techniques, which often ignore the
coherence and smoothness for sequential CT slices. To address this issue, we
propose a novel approach using generative adversarial networks (GANs) with
enhanced local coherence. The proposed method can capture the local coherence
of adjacent images by optical flow, which yields significant improvements in
the precision and stability of the constructed images. We evaluate our proposed
method on real datasets and the experimental results suggest that it can
outperform existing state-of-the-art reconstruction approaches significantly
A Block-Ring connected Topology of Parameterized Quantum Circuits
It is essential to select efficient topology of parameterized quantum
circuits (PQCs) in variational quantum algorithms (VQAs). However, there are
problems in current circuits, i.e. optimization difficulties caused by too many
parameters or performance is hard to guarantee. How to reduce the number of
parameters (number of single-qubit rotation gates and 2-qubit gates) in PQCs
without reducing the performance has become a new challenge. To solve this
problem, we propose a novel topology, called Block-Ring (BR) topology, to
construct the PQCs. This topology allocate all qubits to several blocks,
all-to-all mode is adopt inside each block and ring mode is applied to connect
different blocks. Compared with the pure all-to-all topology circuits which own
the best power, BR topology have similar performance and the number of
parameters and 2-qubit gate reduced from 0(n^2) to 0(mn) , m is a
hyperparameter set by ourselves. Besides, we compared BR topology with other
topology circuits in terms of expressibility and entangling capability.
Considering the effects of different 2-qubit gates on circuits, we also make a
distinction between controlled X-rotation gates and controlled Z-rotation
gates. Finally, the 1- and 2-layer configurations of PQCs are taken into
consideration as well, which shows the BR's performance improvement in the
condition of multilayer circuits.Comment: 9 pages, 12 figure
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