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We establish fundamental and general techniques for formal verification of quantum protocols. Quantum protocols are novel communication schemes involving the use of quantum-mechanical phenomena for representation, storage and transmission…

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Phase can be reliably estimated from a single diffracted intensity image, if a faithful prior information about the object is available. Examples include amplitude bounds, object support, sparsity in the spatial or a transform domain, deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Sanjeev Kumar

Zero-shot detection, namely, localizing both seen and unseen objects, increasingly gains importance for large-scale applications, with large number of object classes, since, collecting sufficient annotated data with ground truth bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Pengkai Zhu , Hanxiao Wang , Venkatesh Saligrama

Infrared thermography (IRT) and photothermal coherence tomography (PCT) exhibit potential in non-destructive testing and biomedical fields. However, the inevitable heat diffusion significantly affects the sensitivity and resolution of IRT…

We initiate the study of relativistic zero-knowledge quantum proof of knowledge systems with classical communication, formally defining a number of useful concepts and constructing appropriate knowledge extractors for all the existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Kaiyan Shi , Kaushik Chakraborty , Wen Yu Kon , Omar Amer , Marco Pistoia , Charles Lim

Photon-number measurements are a fundamental technique for the discrimination and characterization of quantum states of light. Beyond the abilities of state-of-the-art devices, we present measurements with an array of 100 avalanche…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-06 Johannes Kröger , Thomas Ahrens , Jan Sperling , Werner Vogel , Heinrich Stolz , Boris Hage

In the beginning stage, face verification is done using easy method of geometric algorithm models, but the verification route has now developed into a scientific progress of complicated geometric representation and matching process. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-03 V. Karthikeyan , Manjupriya , C. K. Chithra , M. Divya

In this paper we propose a definition for (honest verifier) quantum statistical zero-knowledge interactive proof systems and study the resulting complexity class, which we denote QSZK. We prove several facts regarding this class that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Watrous

We present neutrino-based options for verifying that the nuclear reactors at North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center are no longer operating or that they are operating in an agreed manner, precluding weapons production. Neutrino…

It is up to now a challenge to control the conduction of heat. Here we develop a method to distort the temperature distribution signature of an object at will. As a result, the object accurately exhibits the same temperature distribution…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-25 Y. X. Chen , X. Y. Shen , J. P. Huang

Detection in zero degree calorimeters of the correlated forward-backward Coulomb or nuclear dissociation of two colliding nuclei is presented as a practical luminosity monitor in heavy ion colliders. Complementary predictions are given for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Anthony J. Baltz , Chellis Chasman , Sebastian N. White

Might a nuclear-armed terrorist group or state use ordinary commerce to deliver a nuclear weapon by smuggling it in a cargo container or vehicle? This delivery method would be the only one available to a sub-state actor, and it might enable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 J. I. Katz

We propose the first generalization of the famous Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge (NIZK) proofs to quantum languages (NIZKoQS) and we provide a protocol to prove advanced properties on a received quantum state non-destructively and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Léo Colisson , Frédéric Grosshans , Elham Kashefi

The precise control of complex quantum systems promises numerous technological applications including digital quantum computing. The complexity of such devices renders the certification of their correct functioning a challenge. To address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Martin Kliesch , Ingo Roth

Quantum entangled states have shown distinguished features beyond any classical state. Many methods like quantum state tomography have been presented to verify entanglement. In this work, we aim to identify unknown entanglements with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Ming-Xing Luo , Shao-Ming Fei , Jing-Ling Chen

Autonomous systems -- such as self-driving cars, autonomous drones, and automated trains -- must come with strong safety guarantees. Over the past decade, techniques based on formal methods have enjoyed some success in providing strong…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Nathan Fulton , Nathan Hunt , Nghia Hoang , Subhro Das

Quantum computers promise to efficiently solve not only problems believed to be intractable for classical computers, but also problems for which verifying the solution is also considered intractable. This raises the question of how one can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Alexandru Gheorghiu , Theodoros Kapourniotis , Elham Kashefi

We present a novel problem setting in zero-shot learning, zero-shot object recognition and detection in the context. Contrary to the traditional zero-shot learning methods, which simply infers unseen categories by transferring knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Ruotian Luo , Ning Zhang , Bohyung Han , Linjie Yang

Proof by coupling is a classical proof technique for establishing probabilistic properties of two probabilistic processes, like stochastic dominance and rapid mixing of Markov chains. More recently, couplings have been investigated as a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Gilles Barthe , Thomas Espitau , Benjamin Grégoire , Justin Hsu , Pierre-Yves Strub

The modern integrated circuit ecosystem is increasingly reliant on third-party intellectual property integration, which introduces security risks, including hardware Trojans and security vulnerabilities. Addressing the resulting trust…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Sirui Shen , Zunchen Huang , Chenglu Jin