Chinese Physics B

Partially secret broadcasting, partially secret splitting with quantum entanglement

Liu Yu, Zhang Bin-Bin

Published Jan 1, 2010• 3 citations

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a classical secret broadcasting and splitting joint protocol in a quantum scenario. With those genuinely entangled states, the boss can always broadcast some of his secrets and split some others to multi-receivers at the same time. The efficiency of the joint protocol is also compared with that of two separate ones which realise classical secret broadcasting and classical secret splitting respectively, and based on the comparison we can see the promising advantage of our joint protocol is that it can realise the two tasks more efficiently and more conveniently.

DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/19/1/010312

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