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Quantum secret sharing without monitoring signal disturbance

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Secret sharing, in which a dealer wants to split a secret in such a way that any unauthorized subsets of parties are unable to reconstruct it, plays a key role in cryptography. The security of quantum protocols for the task is guaranteed by the fact that Eve’s any strategies to obtain secret information from encoded quantum states should cause a disturbance in the signal. Here, we propose a quantum secret sharing (classical information) scheme for N parties which is no longer needed to monitor signal disturbance. Comparing to existing qudit-based schemes, this scheme has obvious advantages in feasibility and scalability. Our work paves a novel way for quantum secret sharing.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge helpful review by Haiqiang Ma and Fei Gao. We are grateful to the anonymous referees for their valuable comments to improve the quality of the paper. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61705048), the Guangxi Science Foundation (Grant No. 2017GXNSFBA198231) and special funding for Guangxi distinguished professors (Bagui Yingcai and Bagui Xuezhe).

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  1. Guangxi Key Laboratory for Relativistic Astrophysics, School of Physics Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, People’s Republic of China

    Kejin Wei

  2. College of Science, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot, 010051, People’s Republic of China

    Xiuqing Yang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, Shanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Changhua Zhu

  4. CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, People’s Republic of China

    Zhen-Qiang Yin

  5. Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

    Zhen-Qiang Yin

  6. State Key Laboratory of Cryptology, P. O. Box 5159, Beijing, 100878, People’s Republic of China

    Zhen-Qiang Yin

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Wei, K., Yang, X., Zhu, C. et al. Quantum secret sharing without monitoring signal disturbance. Quantum Inf Process 17, 230 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-018-1987-6

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