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Quantum secret sharing is a way to share secret messages amongst a number of clients in a group with unconditional security. For the first time, Hillery et al. [Phys. Rev. A 59, 1829] proposed the quantum version of classical secret sharing protocol using GHZ states. Here, we implement this quantum secret sharing protocol in IBM 5-qubit quantum processor 'ibmqx4' and compare the experimentally obtained results with the theoretically predicted ones. The results are analyzed through quantum state tomography technique and the fidelity of these states were calculated for different number of executions made in the device. It is concluded that the experimental results match with the theoretical values with a high fidelity.

We propose two deterministic secure quantum communication (DSQC) protocols employing three-qubit GHZ-like states and five-qubit Brown states as quantum channels for secure transmission of information in units of two bits and three bits using multipartite teleportation schemes developed here. In these schemes, the sender's capability in selecting quantum channels and the measuring bases leads to improved qubit efficiency of the protocols.

In this paper we propose two schemes for teleportation of a sub-class of tripartite states, the first one with the four-qubit cluster state and the second one with two Bell pairs as entanglement channels. A four-qubit joint measurement in the first case and two Bell measurements in the second are performed by the sender. Appropriate unitary operations on the qubits at the receiver's end along with an ancilla qubit result in the perfect teleportation of the tripartite state. Analysis of the quantum circuits employed in these schemes reveal that in our technique the desired quantum tasks are achieved with lesser quantum cost, gate count and classical communication bits compared with other similar schemes.

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