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Experimental quantum secret sharing based on phase encoding of coherent states

2023; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 66; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s11433-023-2105-7

1674-7348

Ao Shen, Xiaoyu Cao, Yang Wang, Yao Fu, Jie Gu, Wen‐Bo Liu, Chen-Xun Weng, Hua‐Lei Yin, Zeng‐Bing Chen,

Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is one of the basic communication primitives in future quantum networks which addresses part of the basic cryptographic tasks of multiparty communication and computation. Nevertheless, it is a challenge to provide a practical QSS protocol with security against general attacks. A QSS protocol that balances security and practicality is still lacking. Here, we propose a QSS protocol with simple phase encoding of coherent states among three parties. Removing the requirement of impractical entangled resources and the need for phase randomization, our protocol can be implemented with accessible technology. We provide the finite-key analysis against coherent attacks and implement a proof-of-principle experiment to demonstrate our scheme’s feasibility. Our scheme achieves a key rate of 85.3 bps under a 35 dB channel loss. Combined with security against general attacks and accessible technology, our protocol is a promising candidate for practical multiparty quantum communication networks.