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Quantum secret sharing based on quantum information masking

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In this paper, we construct a physical process to mask the d-dimensional quantum state into multipartite quantum systems. According to this masker, we propose a quantum secret sharing scheme to realize a class of special hypergraph access structures. In the distribution phase of the proposed protocol, the distributor wants to share an unknown d-dimensional quantum state and mask the secret state into a multi-party quantum systems. In the reconstruction phase, participants in the authorized set carry out several measurements and a series of appropriate unitary operations on their particles to obtain the original information state. At last, we also analyze the security of our scheme in three primary quantum attacks.

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We want to express our gratitude to anonymous referees for their valuable and constructive comments. This work was sponsored by Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province under Grant Nos. A2022210002 and A2021210027, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 12001480.

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    Chen-Ming Bai, Sujuan Zhang & Lu Liu

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Bai, CM., Zhang, S. & Liu, L. Quantum secret sharing based on quantum information masking. Quantum Inf Process 21, 377 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-022-03723-2

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