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We investigates a model of hybrid classical-quantum communication complexity, in which two parties first exchange classical messages and subsequently communicate using quantum messages. We study the trade-off between the classical and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Xudong Wu , Guangxu Yang , Penghui Yao

A major open problem in communication complexity is whether or not quantum protocols can be exponentially more efficient than classical protocols on _total_ Boolean functions in the two-party interactive model. The answer appears to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 Yaoyun Shi , Yufan Zhu

A notion of asymmetric quantum dialogue (AQD) is introduced. Conventional protocols of quantum dialogue are essentially symmetric as both the users (Alice and Bob) can encode the same amount of classical information. In contrast, the scheme…

In this short note, we initiate the study of the Linear Isomorphism Testing Problem in the setting of communication complexity, a natural linear algebraic generalization of the classical Equality problem. Given Boolean functions $f, g :…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Swarnalipa Datta , Arijit Ghosh , Chandrima Kayal , Manaswi Paraashar , Manmatha Roy

We consider a source (Alice) trying to communicate with a destination (Bob), in a way that an unauthorized node (Eve) cannot infer, based on her observations, the information that is being transmitted. The communication is assisted by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Dionysios S. Kalogerias , Nikolaos Chatzipanagiotis , Michael M. Zavlanos , Athina P. Petropulu

The `no communication' theorem prohibits superluminal communication by showing that any measurement by Alice on an entangled system cannot change the reduced density matrix of Bob's state, and hence the expectation value of any measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Amitava Datta

Bob hides a ball in one of four drawers. Alice is to locate it. Classically she has to open up to three drawers, quantally just one. The fundamental reason for this quantum speedup is not known. The usual representation of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-20 Giuseppe Castagnoli

Quantum resources can be more powerful than classical resources - a quantum computer can solve certain problems exponentially faster than a classical computer, and computing a function of two people's inputs can be done with exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-05 Christopher Perry , Rahul Jain , Jonathan Oppenheim

The usual representation of quantum algorithms is limited to the process of solving the problem. We extend it to the process of setting the problem. Bob, the problem setter, selects a problem-setting by the initial measurement. Alice, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Giuseppe Castagnoli , Eliahu Cohen , Artur Ekert , Avshalom Elitzur

Suppose that a transmitter Alice potentially wishes to communicate with a receiver Bob over an adversarially jammed binary channel. An active adversary James eavesdrops on their communication over a binary symmetric channel (BSC(q)), and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Qiaosheng Zhang , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

Covert communication is necessary when revealing the mere existence of a message leaks sensitive information to an attacker. Consider a network link where an authorized transmitter Jack sends packets to an authorized receiver Steve, and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Amir Houmansadr

Suppose that Alice and Bob are given each an infinite string, and they want to decide whether their two strings are in a given relation. How much communication do they need? How can communication be even defined and measured for infinite…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Pierre Guillon , Emmanuel Jeandel

We study the query complexity of computing a function f:{0,1}^n-->R_+ in expectation. This requires the algorithm on input x to output a nonnegative random variable whose expectation equals f(x), using as few queries to the input x as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 Jedrzej Kaniewski , Troy Lee , Ronald de Wolf

In this work we study the problem of communication over the quantum wiretap channel. For this channel there are three parties Alice (sender), Bob (legitimate receiver) and Eve (eavesdropper). We obtain upper and lower bounds on the amount…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Jaikumar Radhakrishnan , Pranab Sen , Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

The coherent superposition of quantum states is an important resource for quantum information processing which distinguishes quantum dynamics and information from their classical counterparts. In this article we determine the coherence…

The whitespace-discovery problem describes two parties, Alice and Bob, trying to establish a communication channel over one of a given large segment of whitespace channels. Subsets of the channels are occupied in each of the local…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Yossi Azar , Ori Gurel-Gurevich , Eyal Lubetzky , Thomas Moscibroda

We present two quantum information splitting schemes using respectively tripartite GHZ and asymmetric W states as quantum channels. We show that, if the secret state is chosen from a special ensemble and known to the sender (Alice), then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-23 Zhan-jun Zhang , Chi-Yee Cheung

The Gap-Hamming-Distance problem arose in the context of proving space lower bounds for a number of key problems in the data stream model. In this problem, Alice and Bob have to decide whether the Hamming distance between their $n$-bit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Joshua Brody , Amit Chakrabarti

We consider a two-user secure computation problem in which Alice and Bob communicate interactively in order to compute some deterministic functions of the inputs. The privacy requirement is that each user should not learn any additional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Gowtham R. Kurri , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

Suppose two separated parties, Alice and Bob, share a bipartite quantum state or a classical correlation called a \emph{seed}, and they try to generate a target classical correlation by performing local quantum or classical operations on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Zhenyu Chen , Lijinzhi Lin , Xiaodie Lin , Zhaohui Wei , Penghui Yao