Two-way ↔ quantum communication using four-qubit cluster state: Mutual exchange of quantum information

Abstract

In this study, we have proposed a scheme for two-way quantum communication in which the two legitimate participants mutually exchange their quantum information to each other by using a four-qubit cluster state as the quantum channel. Recently, by utilizing four-qubit cluster state as the quantum channel, Kazemikhah et al. [Int. J. Theor. Phys. 60, 378 (2021)] tried to design a scheme for mutual exchange of quantum information between two legitimate participants. However, in this study, it has been shown that in their scheme, the transmission of quantum information cannot be realized because the two participants are not entangled to each other due to a trivial conceptual mistake made by Kazemikhah et al. in the description of the quantum channel. Here, we have shown that two legitimate participants can teleport quantum information states to each other by using four-qubit cluster state as the quantum channel, provided they co-operate with each other and perform nonlocal controlled phase gate operation. If both participants do not co-operate with each other, then no one can reconstruct the information sent to them, and therefore, the exchange of information is possible only when both participants are honest to each other.