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Quantum secret sharing is a way to share secret messages among the clients in a group with complete security. For the first time, Hillery et al. (Phys Rev A 59:1829, 1999) proposed the quantum version of classical secret sharing protocol using GHZ states. Here, we implement the above quantum secret sharing protocol in ‘IBM Q 5 Tenerife’ quantum processor and compare the experimentally obtained results with the theoretically predicted ones. Further, a new quantum binary voting protocol is proposed and implemented in the 14-qubit ‘IBM Q 14 Melbourne’ quantum processor. The results are analyzed through the technique of quantum state tomography, and the fidelity of states is calculated for different number of executions made in the device.
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D.J. thanks U.G.C., New Delhi, for providing the financial support through BSR fellowship and Athul R.T. for the technical support. B.K.B. acknowledges the financial support of IISER Kolkata. The authors are extremely grateful to IBM team and IBM QE project. The discussions and opinions developed in this paper are only those of the authors and do not reflect the opinions of IBM or IBM Quantum Experience team.
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Joy, D., Sabir, M., Behera, B.K. et al. Implementation of quantum secret sharing and quantum binary voting protocol in the IBM quantum computer. Quantum Inf Process 19, 33 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-019-2531-z
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