Quantum Secret Sharing Rates

Abstract

This paper studies the capacity limits for quantum secret sharing (QSS). The goal of a QSS scheme is to distribute a quantum secret among multiple participants, such that only authorized parties can recover it through collaboration, while no information can be obtained without such collaboration. We introduce an information-theoretic model for the rate analysis of QSS and its relation to compound quantum channels, following a similar approach as of Zou et al. (2015) on classical secret sharing. We establish a regularized characterization for the QSS capacity, and determine the capacity for QSS with dephasing noise.