Hierarchical and probabilistic quantum state sharing via a non-maximally entangled |χ〉state

A scheme that probabilistically realizes hierarchical quantum state sharing of an arbitrary unknown qubit state with a four-qubit non-maximally entangled |χ state is presented in this paper. In the scheme, the sender Alice distributes a quantum secret with a Bell-state measurement and publishes her measurement outcomes via a classical channel to three agents who are divided into two grades. One agent is in the upper grade, while the other two agents are in the lower grade. Then by introducing an ancillary qubit, the agent of the upper grade only needs the assistance of any one of the other two agents for probabilistically obtaining the secret, while an agent of the lower grade needs the help of both the other two agents by using a controlled-NOT operation and a proper positive operator-valued measurement instead of the usual projective measurement. In other words, the agents of two different grades have different authorities to reconstruct Alice's secret in a probabilistic manner. The scheme can also be modified to implement the threshold-controlled teleportation.

Probabilistic teleportation of an arbitrary GHZ-class state with a pure entangled two-particle quantum channel and its application in quantum state sharing

This paper presents a scheme for probabilistic teleportation of an arbitrary GHZ-class state with a pure entangled two-particle quantum channel. The sender Alice first teleports the coefficients of the unknown state to the receiver Bob, and then Bob reconstructs the state with an auxiliary particle and some unitary operations if the teleportation succeeds. This scheme has the advantage of transmitting much less particles for teleporting an arbitrary GHZ-class state than others. Moreover, it discusses the application of this scheme in quantum state sharing.

Tripartite Arbitrary Two-Qutrit Quantum State Sharing

A tripartite scheme for securely sharing an arbitrary unknown two-qutrit state is proposed, where two generalized Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger （GHZ） states serve as the quantum channel linking the three legitimate parties. The quantum information （i.e., the arbitrary unknown two-qutrit state） from the sender can be split in such a way that it can be reconstructed deterministically by any agent via a proper unitary operation provided that both agents collaborates together. Moreover, the generalization of the tripartite scheme to more-party case is also outlined.

Remote Three-Party Quantum State Sharing Based on Three-Atom Entangled States Assisted by Cavity QED and Flying Qubits

We present a remote three-party quantum state sharing （QSTS） scheme with three-atom Greenberger- Horne-Zeilinger （GHZ） states assisted by cavity QED and flying qubits. It exploits some photons to act as the flying qubits for setting up the quantum channel securely with three-atom systems in a GHZ state, which maybe make this remote QSTS scheme more practical than some other schemes based on atom systems only or ion-trap systems as photons interact with their environments weakly. The coherence of the stationary atom qubits in cavities provides the convenience for the parties in QSTS to check eavesdropping, different from entangled photon systems. Moreover, the present scheme works in a collective-noise condition and it may be more practical than others in applications in future.

Scheme for Generalized Quantum State Sharing of a Single-Qubit State in Cavity QED

An experimentally feasible scheme for generalized quantum state sharing of an arbitrary unknown single- qubit state in cavity QED is presented. Using a generalized Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger （GHZ） state as the quantum channel among the three parties, the quantum information （i.e. the single-qubit state） from the sender can be split in such a way that the information can be recovered if and only if both receivers collaborate. Moreover, the scheme is insensitive to both the effects of thermal field and cavity decay.

Three-Party Quantum State Sharing of an Arbitrary Unknown Two-Qubit State Based on Entanglement Swapping and Bell-State Measurements

We propose a scheme for sharing an arbitrary unknown two-qubit state among three parties by using afour-qubit cluster-class state and a Bell state as a quantum channel With a quantum controlled phase gate (QCPG)operation and a local unitary operation,any one of the two agents has the access to reconstruct the original state ifhe/she collaborates with the other one,whilst individual agent obtains no information.As all quantum resource canbe used to carry the useful information,the intrinsic efficiency of qubits approaches the maximal value.Moreover,thepresent scheme is more feasible with present-day technique.

A rational quantum state sharing protocol with semi-off-line dealer

A rational quantum state sharing protocol with the semi-off-line dealer is proposed.Firstly,the dealer Alice shares an arbitrary two-particle entangled state with the players by Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen(EPR)pairs and Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger(GHZ)states.The EPR pairs are prepared by Charlie instead of the dealer,reducing the workload of the dealer.Secondly,all players have the same probability of reconstructing the quantum state,guaranteeing the fairness of the protocol.In addition,the dealer is semi-off-line,which considerably reduces the information exchanging between the dealer and the players.Finally,our protocol achieves security,fairness,correctness,and strict Nash equilibrium.

Quantum state sharing of an arbitrary qudit state by using nonmaximally generalized GHZ state

We present a scheme for quantum state sharing of an arbitrary qudit state by using nonmaximally entangled generalized Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger （GHZ） states as the quantum channel and generalized Bell-basis states as the joint measurement basis. We show that the probability of successful sharing an unknown qudit state depends on the joint measurements chosen by Alice. We also give an expression for the maximally probability of this scheme.

Controlled quantum state sharing of arbitrary two-qubit states with five-qubit cluster states

In this paper, we propose a controlled quantum state sharing scheme to share an arbitrary two-qubit state using a five-qubit cluster state and the Bell state measurement. In this scheme, the five-qubit cluster state is shared by a sender （Alice）, a controller （Charlie）, and a receiver （Bob）, and the sender only needs to perform the Bell-state measurements on her particles during the quantum state sharing process, the controller performs a single-qubit projective measurement on his particles, then the receiver can reconstruct the arbitrary two-qubit state by performing some appropriate unitary transformations on his particles after he has known the measured results of the sender and the controller.

Deterministic all-optical quantum state sharing

Quantum state sharing,an important protocol in quantum information,can enable secure state distribution and reconstruction when part of the information is lost.In(k,n)threshold quantum state sharing,the secret state is encoded into n shares and then distributed to n players.The secret state can be reconstructed by any k players(k>n∕2),while the rest of the players get nothing.In the continuous variable regime,the implementation of quantum state sharing needs the feedforward technique,which involves opticelectro and electro-optic conversions.These conversions limit the bandwidth of the quantum state sharing.Here,to avoid the optic-electro and electro-optic conversions,we experimentally demonstrate(2,3)threshold deterministic all-optical quantum state sharing.A low-noise phase-insensitive amplifier based on the four-wave mixing process is utilized to replace the feedforward technique.We experimentally demonstrate that any two of three players can cooperate to implement the reconstruction of the secret state,while the rest of the players cannot get any information.Our results provide an all-optical platform to implement arbitrary(k,n)threshold deterministic all-optical quantum state sharing and pave the way to construct the all-optical broadband quantum network.

Undeniable quantum state sharing with a five-atom cluster state in cavity QED

We present an efficient scheme for undeniable five-party quantum state sharing(FQSTS) of an arbitrary single-atom state with a five-atom cluster state in cavity QED.The implementation of this scheme does not involve the joint-state measurement of multi-atoms,which makes it convenient in a practical application.The scheme is also insensitive to the cavity decay and the thermal field.

Several teleportation schemes of an arbitrary unknown multi-particle state via different quantum channels

We first provide four new schemes for two-party quantum teleportation of an arbitrary unknown multi-particle state by using three-, four-, and five-particle states as the quantum channel, respectively. The successful probability and fidelity of the four schemes reach 1. In the first two schemes, the receiver can only apply one of the unitary transformations to reconstruct the original state, making it easier for these two schemes to be directly realized. In the third and fourth schemes, the sender can preform Bell-state measurements instead of multipartite entanglement measurements of the existing similar schemes, which makes real experiments more suitable. It is found that the last three schemes may become tripartite controlled teleportation schemes of teleporting an arbitrary multi-particle state after a simple modification. Finally, we present a new scheme for three-party sharing an arbitrary unknown multi-particle state. In this scheme, the sender first shares three three-particle GHZ states with two agents. After setting up the secure quantum channel, an arbitrary unknown multi-particle state can be perfectly teleported if the sender performs three Bell-state measurements, and either of two receivers operates an appropriate unitary transformation to obtain the original state with the help of other receiver＇s three single-particle measurements. The successful probability and fidelity of this scheme also reach 1. It is demonstrated that this scheme can be generalized easily to the case of sharing an arbitrary unknown multi-particle state among several agents.

A Theoretical Scheme for Multiparty Multi-particle State Sharing

A theoretical scheme for multiparty multi-particle state sharing is proposed. After she introduces auxiliary particles and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen （EPIC） pairs, the sender （Alice） performs Hadamard （14） gate operations and Controlled-NOT （CNOT） gate operations on them. Subsequently, the sender leaves one particle sequence and distributes the rest particles to the other participants. And then, the sender makes Bell-state measurements on her particles and publishes the measurement outcomes via the classical channel to realize the quantum state sharing among the others. Only the simple operations are used to realize quantum state sharing. The sender may increase or decrease the number of the participants by changing the number of the auxiliary particles.

An Efficient Scheme for Multiparty Multi-particle State Sharing

We present an efficient scheme for sharing an arbitrary m-qubit state with n agents.In our scheme,the sender Alice first shares m Bell states with the agent Bob,who is designated to recover the original m-qubit state.Furthermore,Alice introduces n-1 auxiliary particles in the initial state |0>,applies Hadamard (H) gate and Controlled-Not(CNOT) gate operations on the particles,which make them entangled with one of m particle pairs in Bell states,and then sends them to the controllers (i.e.,other n-1 agents),where each controller only holds one particle in hand.After Alice performing m Bell-basis measurements and each controller a single-particle measurement,the recover Bobcan obtain the original unknown quantum state by applying the corresponding local unitary operations on his particles.Its intrinsic efficiency for qubits approaches 100%,and the total efficiency really approaches the maximal value.

Multiple Multi-Qubit Quantum States Sharing

A multiple multi-qubit quantum states sharing scheme is proposed,in which the dealer can share multiple multi-qubit quantum states among the participants through only one distribution and one recovery.The dealer encodes the secret quantum states into a special entangled state,and then distributes the particles of the entangled state to the participants.The participants perform the single-particle measurements on their particles,and can cooperate to recover the multiple multi-qubit quantum states.Compared to the existing schemes,our scheme is more efficient and more flexible in practice.

Dynamic(2, 3) Threshold Quantum Secret Sharing of Secure Direct Communication

In this paper, we show that a(2, 3) discrete variable threshold quantum secret sharing scheme of secure direct communication can be achieved based on recurrence using the same devices as in BB84. The scheme is devised by first placing the shares of smaller secret pieces into the shares of the largest secret piece, converting the shares of the largest secret piece into corresponding quantum state sequences, inserting nonorthogonal state particles into the quantum state sequences with the purpose of detecting eavesdropping, and finally sending the new quantum state sequences to the three participants respectively. Consequently, every particle can on average carry up to 1.5-bit messages due to the use of recurrence. The control codes are randomly prepared using the way to generate fountain codes with pre-shared source codes between Alice and Bob, making three participants can detect eavesdropping by themselves without sending classical messages to Alice. Due to the flexible encoding, our scheme is also dynamic, which means that it allows the participants to join and leave freely.

Controlled quantum perfect teleportation of multiple arbitrary multi-qubit states

We present an efficient controlled quantum perfect teleportation scheme. In our scheme, multiple senders can teleport multiple arbitrary unknown multi-qubit states to a single receiver via a previously shared entanglement state with the help of one or more controllers. Furthermore, our scheme has a very good performance in the measurement and operation complexity, since it only needs to perform Bell state and single-particle measurements and to apply Controlled-Not gate and other single-particle unitary operations. In addition, compared with traditional schemes, our scheme needs less qubits as the quantum resources and exchanges less classical information, and thus obtains higher communication efficiency.