• Accepted Paper

Quantum secret sharing in a tripartite superconducting network

W. K. Yam, C. Wilkinson, S. Gandorfer, F. Fesquet, M. Handschuh, A. Marx, R. Gross, N. Korolkova, and K. G. Fedorov

PRX Quantum - Accepted 20 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/xwp5-hm43

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 Fnc=2/3 and identify a parameter regime that allows for unconditionally secure communication in the presence of an omnipotent dishonest player. Furthermore, we explore inherent connections between QSS and other important quantum information processing tasks by reinterpreting the measured dataset as quantum dense coding or by simulating channel erasures to assess the performance of quantum error correction. Finally, we discuss extensions of QSS and its relation to the concept of blind quantum computing.

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