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Device-independent randomness extraction for arbitrarily weak min-entropy source

Quantum Physics 2014-10-03 v2

Abstract

Expansion and amplification of weak randomness plays a crucial role in many security protocols. Using quantum devices, such procedure is possible even without trusting the devices used, by utilizing correlations between outcomes of parts of the devices. We show here how to extract random bits with an arbitrarily low bias from a single arbitrarily weak min-entropy source in a device independent setting. To do this we use Mermin devices that exhibit super-classical correlations. Number of devices used scales polynomially in the length of the random sequence nn. Our protocol is robust, it can tolerate devices that malfunction with a probability dropping polynomially in nn at the cost of a minor increase of the number of devices used.

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@article{arxiv.1402.0974,
  title  = {Device-independent randomness extraction for arbitrarily weak min-entropy source},
  author = {Jan Bouda and Marcin Pawlowski and Matej Pivoluska and Martin Plesch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0974},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages + 3 pages supplementary material

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