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Abstract: Recently, we proposed a quantum solution to the problem of private set intersection cardinality (PSI-CA) (Information Sciences 370–371 (2016) 147–158). Compared to classical solutions, the ...

Abstract: Like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, logical AND is a fundamental arithmetic operation in scientific computing. In this paper, we first consider and define a new ...