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A framework for quantum-secure device-independent randomness expansion

Quantum Physics 2020-06-08 v2

Abstract

A device-independent randomness expansion protocol aims to take an initial random seed and generate a longer one without relying on details of how the devices operate for security. A large amount of work to date has focussed on a particular protocol based on spot-checking devices using the CHSH inequality. Here we show how to derive randomness expansion rates for a wide range of protocols, with security against a quantum adversary. Our technique uses semidefinite programming and a recent improvement of the entropy accumulation theorem. To support the work and facilitate its use, we provide code that can generate lower bounds on the amount of randomness that can be output based on the measured quantities in the protocol. As an application, we give a protocol that robustly generates up to two bits of randomness per entangled qubit pair, which is twice that established in existing analyses of the spot-checking CHSH protocol in the low noise regime.

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@article{arxiv.1810.13346,
  title  = {A framework for quantum-secure device-independent randomness expansion},
  author = {Peter J. Brown and Sammy Ragy and Roger Colbeck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.13346},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

26 (+9) pages, 6 (+1) figures. v2: New result included (Fig. 7) and several updates made based on referee comments

R2 v1 2026-06-23T04:59:14.891Z