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Device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-QKD) offers the strongest form of security against eavesdroppers bounded by the laws of quantum mechanics. However, a practical implementation is still pending due to the requirement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Junior R. Gonzales-Ureta , Ana Predojević , Adán Cabello

The detection of nonlocal correlations in a Bell experiment implies almost by definition some intrinsic randomness in the measurement outcomes. For given correlations, or for a given Bell violation, the amount of randomness predicted by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Erik Woodhead , Boris Bourdoncle , Antonio Acín

Device-independent (DI) tests allow to witness and quantify the quantum feature of a system, such as entanglement, without trusting the implementation devices. Although DI test is a powerful tool in many quantum information tasks, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Xingjian Zhang , Yunchao Liu , Xiao Yuan

In a recent paper, Bancal et al. put forward the concept of device-independent witnesses of genuine multipartite entanglement. These witnesses are capable of verifying genuine multipartite entanglement produced in a lab without resorting to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Karoly F. Pal , Tamas Vertesi

Multipartite nonlocality is of great fundamental interest and constitutes a useful resource for many quantum information protocols. However, demonstrating it in practice, by violating a Bell inequality, can be difficult. In particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Celal Furkan Senel , Thomas Lawson , Marc Kaplan , Damian Markham , Eleni Diamanti

Beyond the foundational significance, the problem of bounding nonlocal correlations by reasonable physical principles has meaningful practical consequences, particularly for device-independent (DI) cryptographic security. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Lucas Pollyceno , Anubhav Chaturvedi , Chithra Raj , Pedro R. Dieguez , Marcin Pawłowski

To generate genuine random numbers, random number generators based on quantum theory are essential. However, ensuring that the process used to produce randomness meets desired security standards can pose challenges for traditional quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Rutvij Bhavsar

Bell inequalities define experimentally observable quantities to detect non-locality. In general, they involve correlation functions of all the parties. Unfortunately, these measurements are hard to implement for systems consisting of many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 J. Tura , R. Augusiak , A. B. Sainz , T. Vértesi , M. Lewenstein , A. Acín

We demonstrate that, in the tripartite scenario with all parties' local events being space-like separated, Hardy-type nonlocality constitutes a stronger manifestation of nonlocal correlations than those captured by Mermin-type inequalities,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Ranendu Adhikary , Souradeep Sasmal , Arup Roy

Device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD) is one of the most challenging tasks in quantum cryptography. The protocols and their security are based on the existence of Bell inequalities and the ability to violate them by measuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Rotem Arnon , Felix Leditzky

One of the main challenges in device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD) is achieving the required Bell violation over long distances, as the channel losses result in low overall detection efficiencies. Recent works have explored…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Ernest Y. -Z. Tan , Ramona Wolf

Device-independent quantum key distribution allows for proving the security of a shared cryptographic key between two distant parties with potentially untrusted devices. The security proof is based on the measurement outcome statistics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Máté Farkas

Bell inequality violations are often taken as evidence that quantum nonlocality guarantees intrinsic randomness, effectively playing the role of a "dice" at the heart of many device-independent cryptographic protocols. We show that there…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Ravishankar Ramanathan , Yuan Liu , Stefano Pironio

The future progress of semi-device independent quantum information science depends crucially on our ability to bound the strength of the nonlocal correlations achievable with finite dimensional quantum resources. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Miguel Navascues , Gonzalo de la Torre , Tamas Vertesi

We consider the characterization of entanglement depth in a quantum many-body system from the device-independent perspective; i.e., certifying how many particles are genuinely entangled without relying on assumptions on the system itself…

Variational techniques have been recently developed to find tighter bounds on the von Neumann entropy in a completely device-independent (DI) setting. This, in turn, has led to significantly improved key rates of DI protocols, in both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Thomas A. Hahn , Ernest Y. -Z. Tan , Peter Brown

Bell inequalities are an important tool in device-independent quantum information processing because their violation can serve as a certificate of relevant quantum properties. Probably the best known example of a Bell inequality is due to…

We provide several general upper bounds on the rate of a key secure against a quantum adversary in the device-independent conference key agreement (DI-CKA) scenario. They include bounds by reduced entanglement measures and those based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Karol Horodecki , Marek Winczewski , Siddhartha Das

Imperfect detection efficiency remains one of the major obstacles in achieving loophole-free Bell tests over long distances. At the same time, the challenge of establishing a common reference frame for measurements becomes more pronounced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Paweł Cieśliński , Tamás Vértesi , Mateusz Kowalczyk , Wiesław Laskowski

The question of certifying quantum nonlocality under a relaxation of the assumptions in the Bell theorem has gained traction, with potential for device-independent applications under weak seeds and cross-talk. Recently, it was shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Ravishankar Ramanathan , Yuan Liu