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arXiv:1701.02054 · Quantum Information Processing

Unitary reconstruction of secret for stabilizer-based quantum secret sharing

Ryutaroh Matsumoto

Published Jul 12, 2017• 19 citations
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Abstract

We propose a unitary procedure to reconstruct quantum secret for a quantum secret sharing scheme constructed from stabilizer quantum error-correcting codes. Erasure correcting procedures for stabilizer codes need to add missing shares for reconstruction of quantum secret, while unitary reconstruction procedures for certain class of quantum secret sharing are known to work without adding missing shares. The proposed procedure also works without adding missing shares.

DOI
10.1007/s11128-017-1656-1

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Secret sharing of a quantum state, or quantum secret sharing, in which a dealer wants to share certain amount of quantum information with a few players, has wide applications in quantum information.The critical criterion in a threshold secret sharing scheme is confidentiality; with less than the designated number of players, no information can be recovered.Furthermore, in a quantum scenario, one additional critical criterion exists; the capability of sharing entangled and unknown quantum information.Here by employing a six-photon entangled state, we demonstrate a quantum threshold scheme, where the shared quantum secrecy can be efficiently reconstructed with a state fidelity as high as 93%.By observing that any one or two parties cannot recover the secrecy, we show that our scheme meets the confidentiality criterion.Meanwhile, we also demonstrate that entangled quantum information can be shared and recovered via our setting, which demonstrates that our implemented scheme is fully quantum.Moreover, our experimental setup can be treated as a decoding circuit of the 5-qubit quantum error-correcting code with two erasure errors.
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