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Multi-party semi-quantum secure direct communication protocol with cluster states

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A new semi-quantum secure direct communication (SQSDC) protocol based on four-particle cluster states is designed. Different from the existing SQSDC protocols, this semi-quantum secure direct communication protocol includes two classical senders and one quantum receiver. The designed SQSDC protocol promises higher qubit efficiency than the previous SQSDC protocols by adopting the property of the four-particle cluster state to implement encoding operations. Moreover, the security of the proposed protocol under some common eavesdropping attacks is validated. Furthermore, the presented SQSDC protocol can be transformed into an efficient multi-party semi-quantum dialogue (SQD) protocol.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61871205 and 61561033), the China Scholarship Council (Grant No. 201606825042), and the Major Academic Discipline and Technical Leader of Jiangxi Province (Grant No. 20162BCB22011).

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  1. Department of Electronic Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330031, China

    Liang-Chao Xu, Nan-Run Zhou & Li-Hua Gong

  2. Department of Physics, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330031, China

    Hua-Ying Chen

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA

    Nan-Run Zhou

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Xu, LC., Chen, HY., Zhou, NR. et al. Multi-party semi-quantum secure direct communication protocol with cluster states. Int J Theor Phys 59, 2175–2186 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-020-04491-4

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