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Multiparty Quantum Key Agreement with Four-Qubit Symmetric W State

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Based on four-qubit symmetric W state, the delayed measurement, decoy photos method, block transmission technique and the dense coding method, a multi-party quantum key agreement protocol is proposed. By utilizing the delayed measurement and decoy photos method, the fairness and security of the protocol are ensured. That is, the final generation key can be got fairly by m participants and the outside eavesdropper (includes Trojan-horse attacks, Measure-resend attack, Intercept-resend attack and Entangle-measure attack) and the dishonest participants attacks can be resisted in this protocol. By utilizing block transmission technique and the dense coding method, the efficiency of the protocol is improved. The efficiency analysis shows that the proposed protocol is more efficient than other multi-party QKA protocols.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61402265) and the Fund for Postdoctoral Application Research Project of Qingdao (01020120607).

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    Sha-Sha Wang, Guang-Bao Xu, Xiang-Qian Liang & Yu-Liang Wu

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Wang, SS., Xu, GB., Liang, XQ. et al. Multiparty Quantum Key Agreement with Four-Qubit Symmetric W State. Int J Theor Phys 57, 3716–3726 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-018-3884-2

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