Advance Sharing Procedures for the Ramp Quantum Secret Sharing Schemes With the Highest Coding Rate

Abstract

In some quantum secret sharing schemes, it is known that some shares can be distributed to participants before a secret is given to the dealer. However, it is unclear whether some shares can be distributed before a secret is given in the ramp quantum secret sharing schemes with the highest coding rate. This article proposes procedures to distribute some shares before a secret is given in those schemes. The new procedures enhance the applicability of the secret sharing schemes to wider scenarios as some participants can be unavailable when the dealer obtains the quantum secret. Then, it is proved that our new encoding procedures retain the correspondences between quantum secrets and quantum shares in the original schemes, which ensures that the highest coding rates of the original schemes are also retained.