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Multi-party quantum key agreement with five-qubit brown states

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In this paper, we propose a multi-party quantum key agreement protocol with five-qubit brown states and single-qubit measurements. Our multi-party protocol ensures each participant to contribute equally to the agreement key. Each party performs three single-qubit unitary operations on three qubits of each brown state. Finally, by measuring brown states and decoding the measurement results, all participants can negotiate a shared secret key without classical bits exchange between them. With the analysis of security, our protocol demonstrates that it can resist against both outsider and participant attacks. Compared with other schemes, it also possesses a higher information efficiency. In terms of physical operation, it requires single-qubit measurements only which weakens the hardware requirements of participant and has a better operating flexibility.

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We gratefully acknowledge helpful discussions with X. Huang and L.L. Zhou in the late stage of this study. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61473199 and 61104002) and Youth Fund Project of the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20140305).

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Cai, T., Jiang, M. & Cao, G. Multi-party quantum key agreement with five-qubit brown states. Quantum Inf Process 17, 103 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-018-1871-4

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