General quantum broadcast and multi-cast communications based on entanglement

Broadcast and multi-cast communications are two important applications in quantum information science. Such applications guarantee the implementation of quantum information theory. In this paper, we propose two general schemes for the quantum broadcast and multi-cast communications to ensure that the central party (sender) can broadcast arbitrary single-qubit state to multiple receivers synchronously. Moreover, it is guaranteed that the information among the multiple receivers is different to satisfy the requirement in multi-cast communications. In particular, the proposed schemes indicate the probabilities, of which the multiple receivers obtain the quantum states successfully, could reach 1. We expect this works will shed some light for the prospective research on multi-party quantum communications and quantum cryptography.