Optics Communications 270 (2007) 100–101

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Comment on ‘‘Multiparty secret sharing of quantum information

via cavity QED’’
a,b a,b,*
Ying-Qiao Zhang , Shou Zhang
a
Center for the Condensed-Matter Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, People’s Republic of China
b
Department of Physics, College of Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin 133002, People’s Republic of China

Received 7 March 2006; received in revised form 7 April 2006; accepted 19 June 2006

Abstract

In a recent paper [Z.J. Zhang, Opt. Commun. 261 (2006) 199], a scheme on secret sharing of quantum information in cavity QED has
been discussed. The author claims that he has improved the success probability of teleportation from 6.25% in our original paper [Y.Q.
Zhang, X.R. Jin, S. Zhang, Phys. Lett. A 341 (2005) 380] to 100%. However, in this comment, we show that it is not the case and the
author has mistakenly understood our original paper [Y.Q. Zhang, X.R. Jin, S. Zhang, Phys. Lett. A 341 (2005) 380].
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PACS: 03.67.Dd; 03.65.Ud

Keywords: Secret sharing; Cavity QED

Recently, Zhang [2] has discussed a scheme on multi- jgegei1235,jggeei1235,jgggei1235,jggegi1235,jgeggi1235,jegggi1235,

party secret sharing of quantum information in cavity
QED. In his paper, he revisits our original paper [1] and
claims two disadvantages in our original paper. The first
one is the decoherence effect, as the author has mentioned,
which can be avoided by securely distributing all the atoms
among Alice, Bob and Charlie in advance. The second one
is that the author claims that he has improved the success
probability of teleportation from 6.25% in our original
paper [1] to 100% by considering Alice’s other measure-
ment outcomes. However this argument is inaccurate. In
our original paper, for the sake of simplifying the problem
and making the process easy to understand, we only
enumerate one of the sixteen measurement results on
atoms 1, 2, 3 and 5 (namely, jeeeei1235,jeeegi1235,jeegei1235,
jegeei1235,jgeeei1235,jeeggi1235,jegegi1235,jeggei1235,jgeegi1235,
*
Corresponding author. Address: Department of Physics, College of
Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin 133002, People’s Republic of
China. Tel./fax: +86 4332732596.
E-mail addresses: yqzhang@ybu.edu.cn (Y.-Q. Zhang), szhang@
ybu.edu.cn (S. Zhang).
jggggi1235) to show how the quantum information is
transferred from Alice to Bob and Charlie, which does
not mean that we have not considered or have negated
the other fifteen measurement results. The probability of
Alice obtaining the measurement result jeeeei1235 from
the above sixteen measurement results is 6.25%, but the
total success probability of our original scheme [1] is
100%. The similar case happens for enumerating the mea-
surement results on atom 4 in our original scheme.
According to the Eq. (9) in our original scheme [1], if Alice
assigns Charlie to recover the quantum state, then Bob
needs to measure on atom 4 in the X-basis. For Bob,
there are two measurement results p1ffiffi2 ðjei4 þ jgi4 Þ and
p1ffiffi ðjei  jgi Þ.
2 4 4
If Bob’s measurement result is
1
jwi4 ¼ pffiffiffi ðjei4 þ jgi4 Þ; ð1Þ
2
the state of atom 6 is
jwi6 ¼ ajei6  bjgi6 : ð2Þ

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So Charlie can recover the unknown state by performing
the rotation operation rz on atom 6
rz jwi6 ¼ ajei6 þ bjgi6 : ð3Þ
Obviously, if Bob’s measurement result is
1 Zhang’s paper [2], the author has not changed the success
jwi4 ¼ pffiffiffi ðjei4  jgi4 Þ; ð4Þ
2
Charlie can obtain ajei6 + bjgi6 by performing a operation
I on atom 6. This process is obvious and easy to under-
stand. So we only enumerate one of the two measurement
results on atom 4 (namely, p1ffiffi2 ðjei4 þ jgi4 Þ and p1ffiffi2 ðjei4 
jgi4 Þ) to explain the process of information recovery. In
our writing style, for the sake of simplification, it is unnec-
essary to enumerate all the measurement results one by
one. The similar method on disposal of the measurement
results has been used in our another paper [3].
In a word, in our original scheme [1], the success prob-
ability is not 6.25% but 100%. As we have seen from
probability of our original paper by using a new idea or
method but mistakenly understood our original scheme [1].
References
[1] Y.Q. Zhang, X.R. Jin, S. Zhang, Phys. Lett. A 341 (2005) 380.
[2] Z.J. Zhang, Opt. Commun. 261 (2006) 199.
[3] Y.Q. Zhang, X.R. Jin, S. Zhang, Chin. Phys. 14 (2005) 1732.