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Memory-free quantum secret sharing protocol with collective detection

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At the current stage, quantum secret sharing (QSS) protocols still face many challenges and difficulties in practical application, including the expensive cost of quantum devices and the difficulties of quantum memory technology development. In order to solve the problem of expensive quantum devices, some scholars proposed the collective detection strategy, which cuts the use of quantum devices and increases communication efficiency. However, the use of quantum memory is usually still inevitable in these QSS protocols with collective detection. In this paper, we propose a newly designed (n,n) -threshold multiparty quantum secret sharing protocol with collective detection. And in this protocol, the sender Alice will measure the agents’ qubits as soon as she receives them, avoiding the use of quantum memory. Considering the difficulties in the development of quantum memory, our protocol is more promising for practical application than the previous QSS protocol with collective detection. Additionally, we also analyze communication security and discuss measurement, the used quantum devices, and the communication efficiency of this new formalism.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62171418, U19A2076, 61901425, and 61702061), Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, China (Grant No. cstc2020jcyj-msxmX0719), National Science Key Lab Fund project (Grant No. 6142103200105), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2020CDJQY-A018 and 2020CDJ-LHZZ-056), and Sichuan Science and Technology Program (Grant 019JDJQ0060).

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  2. Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    Bin Liu

  3. Science and Technology on Communication Security Laboratory, Institute of Southwestern Communication, Chengdu, 610041, China

    Bin Liu, Wei Huang, Bingjie Xu & Yang Li

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Wang, S., Liu, B., Huang, W. et al. Memory-free quantum secret sharing protocol with collective detection. Quantum Inf Process 22, 181 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-023-03897-3

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