Encrypted Cloning, Absolute Maximal Entanglement and Quantum Secret Sharing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26866v1
• Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 11:24:54 GMT
• Title: Encrypted Cloning, Absolute Maximal Entanglement and Quantum Secret Sharing
• Abstract summary: We develop a framework for arbitrary dimensions based on Weyl-Heisenberg displacement operators.<n>We prove that an encrypted qudit system comprising two signal-noise qudit pairs is equivalent to a five-party AME state in any dimension.
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• Abstract: The no-cloning theorem prohibits the creation of identical copies of quantum information, imposing fundamental constraints on quantum technologies. A recently proposed protocol, encrypted cloning, introduced by Yamaguchi and Kempf, showed that perfect qubit clones can be produced if they are simultaneously encrypted with a single-use key. They also observed a connection between this scheme and quantum secret sharing (QSS). However, it remained an open question whether encrypted cloning could be generalised to arbitrary dimensions, and the broader relationship between the two schemes had not been formally established. In this work, we address both questions by framing encrypted clones as Absolutely Maximally Entangled (AME) states. In parallel with recent work by Ceará that utilises Zadoff-Chu sequences, we independently develop a complementary framework for arbitrary dimensions based on Weyl-Heisenberg displacement operators, both tracing back to the original qubit construction by Yamaguchi and Kempf. We analytically compute the encrypted state and prove that an encrypted qudit system comprising two signal-noise qudit pairs is equivalent to a five-party AME state in any dimension, provided the input state is uniform. We then formalise the connection to QSS by proving that a threshold QSS scheme can achieve the fundamental objectives of encrypted cloning, establishing QSS as the natural general framework within which encrypted cloning can be contextualised.

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