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A Novel Quantum Voting Scheme Based on BB84-State

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BB84-state is the non-orthogonal single-photon state which has the advantage of easy implementation compared with the quantum multi-photon entanglement states. In this paper, based on BB84-state, by introducing a trusted third-party voting center, a quantum voting scheme is proposed. In this scheme, by performing corresponding unitary operation on BB84-state, all voters send their voting information to the tallyman Charlie, then Charlie counts all votes under the supervision of voting management center Bob, which ensures that the protocol can resist inside attacks. Moreover, by utilizing the decoy particles, our scheme can efficiently prevent outside attacks. Compared with other related quantum voting protocols, our protocol has higher qubit efficiency and fewer interactive times.

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This work is supported by Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No.ZR2019MF023).

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    Bing-Xin Liu, Dong-Huan Jiang & Xiang-Qian Liang

  2. College of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, 266590, China

    Yong-Hua Zhang

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Liu, BX., Jiang, DH., Liang, XQ. et al. A Novel Quantum Voting Scheme Based on BB84-State. Int J Theor Phys 60, 1339–1349 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-021-04760-w

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