Eur. Phys. J. D 42, 333-340 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2007-00024-x

Quantum state sharing of an arbitrary multiqubit state using nonmaximally entangled GHZ states

¹ College of Physics and Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, 273165, P.R. China
² Institute of Physics and Electronics, 10 Dao Tan, Thu Le, Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Vietnam
³ School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, 207-43 Cheongryangni 2-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 130-722, Korea

Corresponding authors: ^a manzx81@hotmail.com - ^b yjxia@mail.qfnu.edu.cn - ^c nbaan@kias.re.kr

Received: 3 December 2006
Published online: 9 February 2007

Abstract

We explicitly present a scheme for quantum state sharing of an arbitrary multiqubit state using nonmaximally entangled GHZ states as the quantum channel and generalized Bell states as the measurement basis. The scheme succeeds only probabilistically with its total success probability depending on the degree of entanglement matching between the quantum channel and the generalized Bell states. Security of the scheme is guaranteed by the fact that attacks of an outside eavesdropper or/and an inside dishonest party will inevitably introduce detectable errors.