Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is one of the important branches of quantum cryptography, which is used to share a secret among multiple participants, and has great potential for applications in fields such as quantum computing and quantum communication. With the rapid development of quantum information, people have higher requirements for the number of users and security of quantum secret sharing. This article analyzes the entanglement characteristics of three entangled states, namely the continuous variable four component Bound Entanglement (BE) state, GHZ (Greenberger-Horn-Zeilinger) state, and Cluster state, and uses them as quantum resources to construct a four component quantum secret sharing scheme. The dependence of quantum secret sharing security on different physical parameters is theoretically calculated for each scheme. The results show that the secret key rate of different entangled state optical fields has a consistent relationship with the signal strength when four users cooperate. While the secret key rate in the BE entangled-state light field corresponding to the QSS scheme is balanced in orthogonal amplitude and orthogonal bit-phase components with a symmetric relationship when three users cooperate, the GHZ entangled-state and the Cluseter entangled-state light field corresponding to the QSS scheme show a larger secret key rate in a single orthogonal component.
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