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Deciding whether a quantum state has secret correlations is an NP-complete problem

Quantum Physics 2015-10-30 v2 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

From the NP-hardness of the quantum separability problem and the relation between bipartite entanglement and the secret key correlations, it is shown that the problem deciding whether a given quantum state has secret correlations in it or not is in NP-complete.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0612052,
  title  = {Deciding whether a quantum state has secret correlations is an NP-complete problem},
  author = {Jae-Weon Lee and DoYong Kwon and Jaewan Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0612052},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

3 pages, revtex, no fig, typos corrected