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The idea of semiquantum secret sharing (SQSS) is that quantum Alice wants to share secret information with clients such as Bob and Charlie who have limited quantum capability. Neither Bob nor Charlie can reconstruct the secret information unless they collaborate together. In existing semiquantum secret sharing protocols, clients generally need the ability of quantum measurement in classical basis and quantum parties usually need to access quantum memory. In this paper, we propose a relatively efficient SQSS protocol where limited Bob and Charlie can realize secret sharing without making any measurements and quantum Alice does not have to access quantum memory.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and China General Technology Research Institute (Grant No. U1736113), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61772565), and the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2018JJ2403).

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  1. College of Information Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, China

    Zhulin Li

  2. Key Laboratory of Hunan Province for Internet of Things and Information Security, College of Information Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, China

    Qin Li

  3. China General Technology Research Institute, Beijing, 100091, China

    Chengdong Liu & Yu Peng

  4. Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Ting Kok, Hong Kong

    Wai Hong Chan

  5. Department of Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China

    Lvzhou Li

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Li, Z., Li, Q., Liu, C. et al. Limited resource semiquantum secret sharing. Quantum Inf Process 17, 285 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-018-2058-8

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