Experimental 11-dimensional secret sharing with Perfect Vortex beams
Abstract
Secret sharing is the art of securely sharing information between more than two people in such a way that its reconstruction requires the collaboration of a certain number of parties. Entanglement-based secret sharing schemes which utilise multi-particle entanglement are limited by their scalability. Recently, a high-dimensional single photon secret sharing protocol was proposed which has impressive advantages in scalability. However, the experimental realisation of this protocol remains elusive. Here, by taking advantage of the high-dimensional Hilbert space for orbital angular momentum and using Perfect Vortex beams as their carriers, we present a proof-of-principle implementation of a high-dimensional single photon quantum secret sharing scheme. We experimentally implemented this scheme for 10 participants in dimensions and show how it can be easily scaled to higher dimensions and any number of participants.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.11489,
title = {Experimental 11-dimensional secret sharing with Perfect Vortex beams},
author = {Jonathan Pinnell and Isaac Nape and Michael De Oliveira and Najmeh Tabebordbar and Andrew Forbes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.11489},
year = {2019}
}