Verifiable Threshold Quantum State Sharing Scheme

Abstract

Quantum state sharing (QSTS) is a hot topic in quantum cryptography. However, majority of the current structures cannot resist the participant's fraud well during the initial state reconstruction phase. Especially, verifiable QSTS scheme which can be used to share unknown quantum state has yet to emerge. In this paper, we will propose the first verifiable structure by improving an existing threshold QSTS scheme. Our scheme has three merits: 1) it is easily realized in physical experiment because only the simple oneparticle unitary operations were involved; 2) each dishonest behavior of one participant could be detected by the next client; and 3) the private key of the dealer could be reused for many times.

Keywords

• Quantum state sharing (QSTS)
• unitary operation
• bell state
• dishonest-detection quantum pairs