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Quantum states cannot be cloned. I show how to extend this property to classical messages encoded using quantum states, a task I call "uncloneable encryption." An uncloneable encryption scheme has the property that an eavesdropper Eve not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Gottesman

Quantum key distribution is a cornerstone of quantum cryptography, enabling secure communication through the principles of quantum mechanics. In reality, most practical implementations rely on the decoy-state method to ensure security…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Zitai Xu , Yizhi Huang , Xiongfeng Ma

Randomization of quantum states is the quantum analogue of the classical one-time pad. We present an improved, efficient construction of an approximately randomizing map that uses O(d/epsilon^2) Pauli operators to map any d-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Paul A. Dickinson , Ashwin Nayak

Quantum key distribution is widely thought to offer unconditional security in communication between two users. Unfortunately, a widely accepted proof of its security in the presence of source, device and channel noises has been missing.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hoi-Kwong Lo , H. F. Chau

We introduce a relativistic version of quantum encryption protocol by considering two inertial observers who wish to securely transmit quantum information encoded in a free scalar quantum field state forming Minkowski particles. In a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Bradler

Quantum key distribution allows two parties, traditionally known as Alice and Bob, to establish a secure random cryptographic key if, firstly, they have access to a quantum communication channel, and secondly, they can exchange classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Christandl , Renato Renner , Artur Ekert

In quantum key distribution implementations, each session is typically chosen long enough so that the secret key rate approaches its asymptotic limit. However, this choice may be constrained by the physical scenario, as in the perspective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-18 Davide Bacco , Matteo Canale , Nicola Laurenti , Giuseppe Vallone , Paolo Villoresi

Communication scenarios between two parties can be implemented by first encoding messages into some states of a physical system which acts as the physical medium of the communication and then decoding the messages by measuring the state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Teiko Heinosaari , Oskari Kerppo , Leevi Leppäjärvi , Martin Plávala

Quantum cryptography is going to find practically useful applications. Recently some first quantum cryptographic solutions became available on the market. For clients it is important to be able to compare the quality and properties of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-24 A. S. Trushechkin , I. V. Volovich

A quantum key distribution scheme based on the use of displaced squeezed vacuum states is presented. The states are squeezed in one of two field quadrature components, and the value of the squeezed component is used to encode a character…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mark Hillery

Large-scale quantum computing is a significant threat to classical public-key cryptography. In strong "quantum access" security models, numerous symmetric-key cryptosystems are also vulnerable. We consider classical encryption in a model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Gorjan Alagic , Stacey Jeffery , Maris Ozols , Alexander Poremba

A classical random variable can be faithfully compressed into a sequence of bits with its expected length lies within one bit of Shannon entropy. We generalize this variable-length and faithful scenario to the general quantum source…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masato Koashi , Nobuyuki Imoto

Quantum many-body systems provide a unique platform for exploring the rich interplay between chaos, randomness, and complexity. In a recently proposed paradigm known as deep thermalization, random quantum states of system A are generated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Wai-Keong Mok , Tobias Haug , Adam L. Shaw , Manuel Endres , John Preskill

Randomness is a very important resource for cryptography, algorithms, and scientific simulations. Since all classical processes are considered to be intrinsically deterministic, we must build quantum random number generators which utilize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-08 Xing Chen , Minsik Kwon , Vadim Vorobyov , Jörg Wrachtrup , Ilja Gerhardt

Quantum information is well-known to achieve cryptographic feats that are unattainable using classical information alone. Here, we add to this repertoire by introducing a new cryptographic functionality called uncloneable encryption. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-25 Anne Broadbent , Sébastien Lord

From the perspective of resource theory, it is interesting to achieve the same quantum task using as few quantum resources as possible. Semiquantum key distribution (SQKD), which allows a quantum user to share a confidential key with a…

It has been shown recently that the framework of quantum sampling, as introduced by Bouman and Fehr, can lead to new entropic uncertainty relations highly applicable to finite-key cryptographic analyses. Here we revisit these so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 Keegan Yao , Walter O. Krawec , Jiadong Zhu

Suppose some data have been encrypted, can you compute with the data without decrypting them? This problem has been studied as homomorphic encryption and blind computing. We consider this problem in the context of quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Min Liang

Quantum Key Distribution is a secret distribution technique that requires an authenticated channel. This channel is usually created on top of an un-authenticated communication medium using unconditionally secure Message Authentication Codes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-26 Sébastien Kunz-Jacques , Paul Jouguet

We prove that it is impossible to construct perfect-complete quantum public-key encryption (QPKE) with classical keys from quantumly secure one-way functions (OWFs) in a black-box manner, resolving a long-standing open question in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Longcheng Li , Qian Li , Xingjian Li , Qipeng Liu