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Classically-Verifiable Quantum Advantage from a Computational Bell Test

Quantum Physics 2022-08-18 v2 Cryptography and Security

Abstract

We propose and analyze a novel interactive protocol for demonstrating quantum computational advantage, which is efficiently classically verifiable. Our protocol relies upon the cryptographic hardness of trapdoor claw-free functions (TCFs). Through a surprising connection to Bell's inequality, our protocol avoids the need for an adaptive hardcore bit, with essentially no increase in the quantum circuit complexity and no extra cryptographic assumptions. Crucially, this expands the set of compatible TCFs, and we propose two new constructions: one based upon the decisional Diffie-Hellman problem and the other based upon Rabin's function, x2modNx^2 \bmod N. We also describe two independent innovations which improve the efficiency of our protocol's implementation: (i) a scheme to discard so-called "garbage bits", thereby removing the need for reversibility in the quantum circuits, and (ii) a natural way of performing post-selection which significantly reduces the fidelity needed to demonstrate quantum advantage. These two constructions may also be of independent interest, as they may be applicable to other TCF-based quantum cryptography such as certifiable random number generation. Finally, we design several efficient circuits for x2modNx^2 \bmod N and describe a blueprint for their implementation on a Rydberg-atom-based quantum computer.

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@article{arxiv.2104.00687,
  title  = {Classically-Verifiable Quantum Advantage from a Computational Bell Test},
  author = {Gregory D. Kahanamoku-Meyer and Soonwon Choi and Umesh V. Vazirani and Norman Y. Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.00687},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table (main text); 12 pages, 1 table (methods + supplementary information). v2: improved notation and clarity, and fixed small errors/typos; no changes to results

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