Advance sharing for stabilizer-based quantum secret sharing schemes

Abstract

In stabilizer-based quantum secret sharing schemes, it is known that some shares can be distributed to participants before a secret is given to the dealer. This distribution is known as advance sharing. It is already known that a set of shares is advance shareable only if it is a forbidden set. However, it was not known whether any forbidden set is advance shareable. We provide an example of a set of shares such that it is a forbidden set but is not advance shareable in the previous scheme. Furthermore, we propose an advance sharing scheme for stabilizer-based quantum secret sharing of quantum secrets such that any forbidden set is advance shareable.