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Continuous-variable Quantum Position Verification secure against entangled attackers

Quantum Physics 2025-05-07 v1

Abstract

Motivated by the fact that coherent states may offer practical advantages it was recently shown that a continuous-variable (CV) quantum position verification (QPV) protocol using coherent states could be securely implemented if and only if attackers do not pre-share any entanglement. In the discrete-variable (DV) analogue of that protocol it was shown that modifying how the classical input information is sent from the verifiers to the prover leads to a favourable scaling in the resource requirements for a quantum attack. In this work, we show that similar conclusions can be drawn for CV-QPV. By adding extra classical information of size nn to a CV-QPV protocol, we show that the protocol, which uses a coherent state and classical information, remains secure, even if the quantum information travels arbitrarily slow, against attackers who pre-share CV (entangled) states with a linear (in nn) cutoff at the photon number. We show that the protocol remains secure for certain attenuation and excess noise.

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@article{arxiv.2404.14261,
  title  = {Continuous-variable Quantum Position Verification secure against entangled attackers},
  author = {Rene Allerstorfer and Llorenç Escolà-Farràs and Arpan Akash Ray and Boris Skoric and Florian Speelman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14261},
  year   = {2025}
}