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Quantum Secret Sharing Using Symmetric W State

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Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is an important branch of quantum cryptography, but the existing literature contains no mention of a QSS scheme that applies in the symmetric W states. Here, we demonstrate a multipartite QSS protocol that is encoded into these quantum states with unitary operation pairs. This paper proposes a new method of constructing a QSS protocol for the symmetric W state. This scheme is more efficient than other existing QSS schemes because our proposed protocol uses only a single photon measurement and XOR to recover the secret KEY of Alice.

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Liu, LL., Tsai, CW. & Hwang, T. Quantum Secret Sharing Using Symmetric W State. Int J Theor Phys 51, 2291–2306 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-012-1109-7

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