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New circular quantum secret sharing for remote agents

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This study presents a novel circular quantum secret sharing (QSS) protocol based on the controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate for remote agents. A CNOT gate is able to entangle a Bell state and several single photons to form a multi-particle GHZ state. Using this technique, the proposed QSS scheme is designed in purpose to be congenitally free from the Trojan horse attacks. Moreover, for each shared bit among n party, the qubit efficiency has reached \({\frac{1}{2n+1}}\), which is the best among the current circular QSS’s.

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Lin, J., Hwang, T. New circular quantum secret sharing for remote agents. Quantum Inf Process 12, 685–697 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-012-0413-8

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