Zero knowledge convincing protocol on quantum bit is impossible
Quantum Physics
2018-01-04 v3
Abstract
Consider two parties: Alice and Bob and suppose that Bob is given a qubit system in a quantum state , unknown to him. Alice knows and she is supposed to convince Bob that she knows sending some test message. Is it possible for her to convince Bob providing him "zero knowledge" i. e. no information about he has? We prove that there is no "zero knowledge" protocol of that kind. In fact it turns out that basing on Alice message, Bob (or third party - Eve - who can intercept the message) can synthetize a copy of the unknown qubit state with nonzero probability. This "no-go" result puts general constrains on information processing where information {\it about} quantum state is involved.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0010048,
title = {Zero knowledge convincing protocol on quantum bit is impossible},
author = {Pawel Horodecki and Michal Horodecki and Ryszard Horodecki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0010048},
year = {2018}
}
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4 pages, RevTeX