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High-dimensional deterministic multiparty quantum secret sharing without unitary operations

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A deterministic multiparty quantum secret sharing scheme is put forward, in which Bell states in high-dimensional Hilbert space are used. Only by preforming High-dimensional Bell measurements, all agents can recover the secret according to the dealer’s announcement when collaborating with each other. It shows that unitary operation for encoding deterministic secret is unnecessary in quantum communication. The security of the transmission of the high-dimensional Bell states can be ensured by randomly using one of the two mutually unbiased bases for eavesdropping checking, and thus by which the proposed quantum secret sharing scheme is secure against usual attacks. In addition, the proposed scheme has three advantages: generality, high resource capacity and high security.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China

    Zhi-Hao Liu, Han-Wu Chen & Juan Xu

  2. School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Wen-Jie Liu

  3. College of Information Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China

    Zhi-Qiang Li

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Liu, ZH., Chen, HW., Xu, J. et al. High-dimensional deterministic multiparty quantum secret sharing without unitary operations. Quantum Inf Process 11, 1785–1795 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-011-0333-z

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