Quantum secret sharing in tripartite superconducting network

TL;DR

This paper reports the experimental implementation of a quantum secret sharing protocol in a tripartite superconducting microwave network, demonstrating secure quantum state sharing and exploring its connections to other quantum information tasks.

Contribution

The authors experimentally realize a three-party quantum secret sharing protocol using microwave entanglement, surpassing no-cloning fidelity thresholds and analyzing security against dishonest players.

Findings

Reconstructed-state fidelities exceed the no-cloning threshold of 2/3.

Identified parameter regimes enabling unconditionally secure communication.

Explored links between QSS, quantum dense coding, and quantum error correction.

Abstract

Superconducting microwave quantum networks is a rapidly developing field, enabling distributed quantum computing and holding a promise for hybrid architectures in quantum internet. Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is one of the key protocols for multipartite quantum networks and can provide an unconditionally secure way to share quantum states among $n$ players. Using microwave two-mode squeezed states as an entanglement resource, we experimentally implement a QSS protocol with $n = 3$, where a subset of at least $k = 2$ players must collaborate to faithfully reconstruct the original secret state. We demonstrate reconstructed-state fidelities that surpass the asymptotic no-cloning threshold of $F_\textrm{nc} = 2/3$ and identify a parameter regime that allows for unconditionally secure communication in the presence of an omnipotent dishonest player. Furthermore, we experimentally explore inherent connections between QSS and other important quantum information processing tasks, such as quantum dense coding and elementary quantum error correction of channel erasures. Finally, we discuss extensions of QSS and its relation to the concept of blind quantum computing.