Multiparty secret sharing of quantum information via cavity QED

The scheme on multiparty secret sharing of an atomic quantum state information via entanglement swapping in cavity QED [Y.Q. Zhang, X.R. Jin, S. Zhang, Phys. Lett. A 341 (2005) 380] is revisited and accordingly an improved version is proposed. The possible decoherence effect in the original version can be avoided after revision of assuming the prior distribution of entanglement. Moreover, the success probability of teleportation has been raised from 6.25% in the original version to 100% in the present version. (C) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.