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An Improved Quantum Voting Scheme

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An improved quantum voting scheme based on four-qubit Cluster state is presented in this paper. This program uses quantum key distribution protocol and quantum one-time pad to guarantee its unconditional security. Furthermore, we use the entanglement of four-qubit Cluster state instead of the controlled quantum teleportation in order to reduce the technical difficulty. The significant advantage of our scheme is that transmitted information capacity is twice as much as the capacity of other schemes.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.61402275, 61402015, 61273311), the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (Grant No.2015JM6263, 2016JM6069), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.GK201402004).

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  1. College of Mathematics and Information Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, 710119, Shaanxi, China

    Xu-Feng Niu & Jian-Zhong Zhang

  2. School of Science, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an, 710121, Shaanxi, China

    Shu-Cui Xie

  3. Teaching and Research Section of Political, PLA Information Engineering University, Luoyang, 471003, Henan, China

    Bu-Qing Chen

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Niu, XF., Zhang, JZ., Xie, SC. et al. An Improved Quantum Voting Scheme. Int J Theor Phys 57, 3200–3206 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-018-3837-9

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