The Finite Geometry of Breaking Quantum Secrets

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08410v2
• Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:35:22 GMT
• Title: The Finite Geometry of Breaking Quantum Secrets
• Authors: Péter Lévay, Metod Saniga,
• Abstract summary: We show that the concepts of quantum secret sharing and contextuality can be studied in a nice and unified manner.<n>We show how finite geometric structures entailing a specific three-qubit (resp. four-qubit) embedding of binary symplectic polar spaces of rank two govern issues of contextuality and entanglement.
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• Abstract: Using a finite geometric framework for studying the pentagon and heptagon codes we show that the concepts of quantum secret sharing and contextuality can be studied in a nice and unified manner. The basic idea is a careful study of the respective $2+3$ and $3+4$ tensorial factorizations of the elements of the stabilizer groups of these codes. It is demonstrated in detail how finite geometric structures entailing a specific three-qubit (resp. four-qubit) embedding of binary symplectic polar spaces of rank two (resp. three), corresponding to these factorizations, govern issues of contextuality and entanglement needed for a geometric understanding of quantum secret sharing. Using these results for the $(3,5)$ and $(4,7)$ threshold schemes explicit secret breaking protocols are derived. Our results hint at a novel geometric way of looking at contextual configurations.

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