Quantum two-state sharing

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel scheme for quantum two-state sharing (QTSS) by using a five-qubit entangled state as the quantum channel. In this scheme, a dealer Alice has two unknown quantum states and wants her three agents to share the quantum states. After the dealer performs a four-qubit measurement on her qubits, and the controller employs a single-qubit measurement on his own qubit, the state receivers can reconstruct the original states by using the appropriate unitary operations. It is shown that, only if all agents collaborate with each other, the QTSS can be completed with unit success probability.