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In this article we deal with the security of the BB84 quantum cryptography protocol over noisy channels using generalized privacy amplification. For this we estimate the fraction of bits needed to be discarded during the privacy…

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We revisit the problem of Pauli shadow tomography: given copies of an unknown $n$-qubit quantum state $\rho$, estimate $\text{tr}(P\rho)$ for some set of Pauli operators $P$ to within additive error $\epsilon$. This has been a popular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Sitan Chen , Weiyuan Gong , Qi Ye

Previous research has aimed to precisely estimate information leakage to improve the secure key rate (SKR) and maximum transmission distance in quantum key distribution (QKD). However, existing methods repeatedly considerd the information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Hao-Kun Mao , Bo Yang , Yu-Cheng Qiao , Bing-Ze Yan , Qiang Zhao , Bing-Jie Xu , Qiong Li

We introduce a new notion of neighboring databases for coverage problems such as Max Cover and Set Cover under differential privacy. In contrast to the standard privacy notion for these problems, which is analogous to node-privacy in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Laxman Dhulipala , George Z. Li

Quantum computation has been growing rapidly in both theory and experiments. In particular, quantum computing devices with a large number of qubits have been developed by IBM, Google, IonQ, and others. The current quantum computing devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Rishabh Gupta , Rongxin Xia , Raphael D. Levine , Sabre Kais

The quantum relative entropy is a fundamental quantity in quantum information science, characterizing the distinguishability between two quantum states. However, this quantity is not additive in general for correlated quantum states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Kun Fang , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

Quantum error correction promises a viable path to fault-tolerant computations, enabling exponential error suppression when the device's error rates remain below the protocol's threshold. This threshold, however, strongly depends on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Maurice D. Hanisch , Bence Hetényi , James R. Wootton

Open quantum systems are highly relevant, both for practical applications as well as for fundamental questions about the nature of information and its transfer, encompassing for example decoherence and memory effects. Quantum mechanics…

We provide a detailed study of the estimation of probability distributions---discrete and continuous---in a stringent setting in which data is kept private even from the statistician. We give sharp minimax rates of convergence for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-28 John C. Duchi , Michael I. Jordan , Martin J. Wainwright

The quantization problem aims to find the best possible approximation of probability measures on ${\mathbb{R}}^d$ using finite, discrete measures. The Wasserstein distance is a typical choice to measure the quality of the approximation.…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Rajmadan Lakshmanan , Alois Pichler

We present the first experimental demonstration of the maximum confidence measurement strategy for quantum state discrimination. Applying this strategy to an arbitrary set of states assigns to each input state a measurement outcome which,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter J. Mosley , Sarah Croke , Ian A. Walmsley , Stephen M. Barnett

In the quantum state tomography problem, one wishes to estimate an unknown $d$-dimensional mixed quantum state $\rho$, given few copies. We show that $O(d/\epsilon)$ copies suffice to obtain an estimate $\hat{\rho}$ that satisfies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Ryan O'Donnell , John Wright

We investigate the problem of teleporting unknown qudit states via pure quantum channels with nonmaximal Schmidt rank. This process is mapped to the problem of discriminating among nonorthogonal symmetric states which are linearly dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-11 L. Neves , M. A. Solís-Prosser , A. Delgado , O. Jiménez

The quantum relative entropy is frequently used as a distance, or distinguishability measure between two quantum states. In this paper we study the relation between this measure and a number of other measures used for that purpose,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. M. R. Audenaert , J. Eisert

Amplification by subsampling is one of the main primitives in machine learning with differential privacy (DP): Training a model on random batches instead of complete datasets results in stronger privacy. This is traditionally formalized via…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Jan Schuchardt , Mihail Stoian , Arthur Kosmala , Stephan Günnemann

Tomography of a quantum state is usually based on positive operator-valued measure (POVM) and on their experimental statistics. Among the available reconstructions, the maximum-likelihood (MaxLike) technique is an efficient one. We propose…

This paper investigates symmetric composite binary quantum hypothesis testing (QHT), where the goal is to determine which of two uncertainty sets contains an unknown quantum state. While asymptotic error exponents for this problem are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Jacob Paul Simpson , Efstratios Palias , Sharu Theresa Jose

Quantum teleportation is one of the essential primitives of quantum communication. We suggest that any quantum teleportation scheme can be characterized by its efficiency, i.e. how often it succeeds to teleport, its fidelity, i.e. how well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Dik Bouwmeester , Jian-Wei Pan , Harald Weinfurter , Anton Zeilinger

E-values have attracted considerable interest in recent years as flexible tools for enabling anytime-valid and adaptive data analysis. Hypothesis testing is at the core of many of these applications, which can often involve private or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ben Jacobsen , Tomas Gonzales , Gavin Brown , Kassem Fawaz , Aaditya Ramdas

This paper investigates the asymptotics of the maximal throughput of communication over AWGN channels by $n$ channel uses under a covert constraint in terms of an upper bound $\delta$ of Kullback-Leibler divergence (KL divergence). It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xinchun Yu , Shuangqing Wei , Shao-Lun Huang , Xiao-Ping Zhang