How to share a quantum secret

Details How to share a quantum secret How to share a quantum secret

1999-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9901025v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 (1999) 648-651

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, REVTeX, submitted to PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.648

We investigate the concept of quantum secret sharing. In a ((k,n)) threshold scheme, a secret quantum state is divided into n shares such that any k of those shares can be used to reconstruct the secret, but any set of k-1 or fewer shares contains absolutely no information about the secret. We show that the only constraint on the existence of threshold schemes comes from the quantum "no-cloning theorem", which requires that n < 2k, and, in all such cases, we give an efficient construction of a ((k,n)) threshold scheme. We also explore similarities and differences between quantum secret sharing schemes and quantum error-correcting codes. One remarkable difference is that, while most existing quantum codes encode pure states as pure states, quantum secret sharing schemes must use mixed states in some cases. For example, if k <= n < 2k-1 then any ((k,n)) threshold scheme must distribute information that is globally in a mixed state.

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