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Table A1 Symbol definition table

From: Quantum identity authentication based on the extension of quantum rotation

Symbol1

Definition and Description

\(\mathbb{N}\)

{0,1,2,3,…}

\(\mathbb{Z}\)

\(\{0,1,2,\dots,n-1\vert n \in \mathbb{N}\}\)

\(\theta _{n}\)

\(\frac{\pi}{2^{n-1}} n \in \mathbb{N}\)

\(R(s\theta _{n})\)

A quantum rotation, where \(s\in \mathbb{Z}_{n}\)

\(R(s_{1}\theta _{n},s_{2}\theta _{n})_{(\Omega )}\)

Ternary quantum rotation occurring in Hilbert space Ω

\(\vert \xi _{s_{i}}\rangle \)

The quantum rotation results with \(s_{i}\)

n in protocol

Number of bits of authentication code

\(k_{\mathrm{ide}}\)

String of authentication code

\(k_{\mathrm{app}}\)

String of authentication application, \(\vert k_{\mathrm{app}}^{i}\vert \in \mathbb{Z}_{n}\)

\(k_{\mathrm{ver}}\)

String of authentication verification, \(\vert k_{\mathrm{ver}}^{i}\vert \in \mathbb{Z}_{n}\)

\(k_{\mathrm{ide}}^{i}\)

The i-th bit of the string, \(k_{\mathrm{ide}}^{i}\in \mathbb{Z}_{n}\)

l

Auxiliary binary string

\(l_{i}\)

The i-th bit of the auxiliary string, \(l_{i} \in \{0,1\}\)

η

Quantum bit efficiency

  1. 1 Only the main symbols are listed in this table. Some regional symbols are not listed here, please refer to the definitions and descriptions of these symbols before use.