Approximate secret-sharing code[1]
Description
A family of \( [[n,k,d]]_q \) CSS codes approximately correcting errors on up to \(\lfloor (n-1)/2 \rfloor\) qubits, i.e., with approximate distance approaching the no-cloning bound \(n/2\). Constructed using a non-degenerate CSS code, such as a polynomial quantum code, and a classical authentication scheme. The code can be viewed as an \(t\)-error tolerant secret sharing scheme. Since the code yields a small logical subspace using large registers that contain both classical and quantum information, it is not useful for practical error correction problems, but instead demonstrates the power of approximate quantum error correction.Protection
Corrects up to \(\lfloor (n-1)/2 \rfloor\) errors with fidelity exponentially lose to 1.Encoding
Uses a quantum authentication scheme, which is a keyed system in which a valid state has high fidelity, and a classical secret-sharing scheme.Decoding
Decoding is analagous to reconstruction in a secret sharing scheme and is done in polynomial time. The only required operations are verification of quantum authentication, which is a pair of polynomial-time quantum algorithms that check if the fidelity of the received state is close to 1, and erasure correction for a stabilizer code, which involves solving a system of linear equations.Cousins
- Approximate quantum error-correcting code (AQECC)— Secret-sharing codes approximately correct errors on up to \(\lfloor (n-1)/2 \rfloor\) errors.
- Galois-qudit RS code— Polynomial codes can be used for a specific construction of this code.
- Reed-Solomon (RS) code— The classical information in this code is encoded using an RS code.
- Purity-testing stabilizer code— The purity-testing protocol of Ref. [2] can be improved using approximate codes similar the approximate secret-sharing codes [3].
- Perfect-tensor code— Perfect tensors are useful for quantum secret sharing and open-destination multi-party teleportation [4–6].
- \([[3,1,2]]_3\) Three-qutrit code— The three-qutrit code defines a minimal secret-sharing scheme [7] that is substantially generalized by approximate secret-sharing codes.
- Singleton-bound approaching AQECC— Quantum secret-sharing codes have asymptotically decaying rate and require qudit dimension to increase exponentially with \(n\), while Singleton-bound approaching AQECCs have constant rate and qudit dimension.
Primary Hierarchy
Parents
The code required to construct this code must be a non-degenerate Galois-qubit CSS code.
Approximate secret-sharing code
References
- [1]
- C. Crepeau, D. Gottesman, and A. Smith, “Approximate Quantum Error-Correcting Codes and Secret Sharing Schemes”, (2005) arXiv:quant-ph/0503139
- [2]
- H. Barnum, C. Crepeau, D. Gottesman, A. Smith, and A. Tapp, “Authentication of quantum messages”, The 43rd Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2002. Proceedings. arXiv:quant-ph/0205128 DOI
- [3]
- M. Ben-Or, C. Crepeau, D. Gottesman, A. Hassidim, and A. Smith, “Secure Multiparty Quantum Computation with (Only) a Strict Honest Majority”, 2006 47th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS’06) (2006) arXiv:0801.1544 DOI
- [4]
- W. Helwig, W. Cui, J. I. Latorre, A. Riera, and H.-K. Lo, “Absolute maximal entanglement and quantum secret sharing”, Physical Review A 86, (2012) arXiv:1204.2289 DOI
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- W. Helwig and W. Cui, “Absolutely Maximally Entangled States: Existence and Applications”, (2013) arXiv:1306.2536
- [6]
- C.-M. Bai, S. Zhang, and L. Liu, “Quantum secret sharing based on quantum information masking”, Quantum Information Processing 21, (2022) DOI
- [7]
- R. Cleve, D. Gottesman, and H.-K. Lo, “How to Share a Quantum Secret”, Physical Review Letters 83, 648 (1999) arXiv:quant-ph/9901025 DOI
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- Victor V. Albert (2021-12-15) — most recent
- Manasi Shingane (2021-12-14)
Cite as:
“Approximate secret-sharing code”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2021. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/quantum_secret_sharing