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Testing quantum circuits and detecting insecure encryption

Quantum Physics 2011-08-05 v1

Abstract

We show that computational problem of testing the behaviour of quantum circuits is hard for the class of problems known as QMA that can be verified efficiently with a quantum computer. This result is a generalization of the techniques previously used to prove the hardness of other problem on quantum circuits. We use this result to show the QMA-hardness of a weak version of the problem of detecting the insecurity of a symmetric-key quantum encryption system, or alternately the problem of determining when a quantum channel is not private. We also give a QMA protocol for the problem of detecting insecure encryption to show that it is QMA-complete.

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@article{arxiv.1108.1052,
  title  = {Testing quantum circuits and detecting insecure encryption},
  author = {Bill Rosgen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.1052},
  year   = {2011}
}

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15 pages

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