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The famous Shannon impossibility result says that any encryption scheme with perfect secrecy requires a secret key at least as long as the message. In this paper we provide its quantum analogue with imperfect secrecy and imperfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Ching-Yi Lai , Kai-Min Chung

Quantum computers can break the RSA and El Gamal public-key cryptosystems, since they can factor integers and extract discrete logarithms. If we believe that quantum computers will someday become a reality, we would like to have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-10-19 Hang Dinh , Cristopher Moore , Alexander Russell

Quantum circuit obfuscation is becoming increasingly important to prevent theft and reverse engineering of quantum algorithms. As quantum computing advances, the need to protect the intellectual property contained in quantum circuits…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Pradyun Parayil , Amal Raj , Vivek Balachandran

Quantum error mitigation (QEM) is a class of promising techniques capable of reducing the computational error of variational quantum algorithms tailored for current noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. The recently proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Yifeng Xiong , Soon Xin Ng , Lajos Hanzo

Neural network decoders are becoming essential for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computations. However, their internal mechanisms are poorly understood, hindering our ability to ensure their reliability and security against adversarial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Jerome Lenssen , Alexandru Paler

Access to the time-reverse $U^{-1}$ of an unknown quantum unitary process $U$ is widely assumed in quantum learning, metrology, and many-body physics. The fundamental task of unitary time-reversal dictates implementing $U^{-1}$ to within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Kean Chen , Nengkun Yu , Zhicheng Zhang

A realistic Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocol necessarily deals with finite resources, such as the number of signals exchanged by the two parties. We derive a bound on the secret key rate which is expressed as an optimization problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-13 Silvestre Abruzzo , Hermann Kampermann , Markus Mertz , Dagmar Bruß

A big challenge in continuous variable quantum key distribution is to prove security against arbitrary coherent attacks including realistic assumptions such as finite-size effects. Recently, such a proof has been presented in [Phys. Rev.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Fabian Furrer

Quantum key distribution (QKD) enables secure key sharing between distant parties, with several protocols proven resilient against conventional eavesdropping strategies. Here, we introduce a new attack scenario where an eavesdropper, Eve,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Sumit Nandi , Biswaranjan Panda , Pankaj Agrawal , Arun K Pati

By considering an unreliable oracle in a query-based model of quantum learning, we present a tradeoff relation between the oracle's reliability and the reusability of quantum state of the input data. The tradeoff relation manifests as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Jeongho Bang , Arijit Dutta , Seung-Woo Lee , Jaewan Kim

Quantum computer is no longer a hypothetical idea. It is the worlds most important technology and there is a race among countries to get supremacy in quantum technology. Its the technology that will reduce the computing time from years to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Manish Kumar

The new field of quantum error correction has developed spectacularly since its origin less than two years ago. Encoded quantum information can be protected from errors that arise due to uncontrolled interactions with the environment.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 John Preskill

Lexicographically minimal string rotation is a fundamental problem in string processing that has recently garnered significant attention in quantum computing. Near-optimal quantum algorithms have been proposed for solving this problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Qisheng Wang

The field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is crucial for microelectronics, but the increasing complexity of Integrated Circuits (ICs) poses challenges for conventional EDA: Corresponding problems are often NP-hard and are therefore in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Matthias Jung , Sven O. Krumke , Christof Schroth , Elisabeth Lobe , Wolfgang Mauerer

Quantum query complexity is known to be characterized by the so-called quantum adversary bound. While this result has been proved in the standard discrete-time model of quantum computation, it also holds for continuous-time (or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Mathieu Brandeho , Jérémie Roland

Quantum random access memory (QRAM) is a critical primitive for quantum algorithms that require data lookup in superposition, but its lack of fault tolerance poses a major obstacle to practical deployment. Error filtration (EF) has been…

Methods of quantum mechanics promise information-theoretic security for various protocols in cryptography. However, impossibility of some cryptographic applications such as standard bit commitment, oblivious transfer, multiparty secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Muhammad Nadeem

The divide-and-conquer framework, used extensively in classical algorithm design, recursively breaks a problem of size $n$ into smaller subproblems (say, $a$ copies of size $n/b$ each), along with some auxiliary work of cost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Andrew M. Childs , Robin Kothari , Matt Kovacs-Deak , Aarthi Sundaram , Daochen Wang

We present a simple proof of the approximate Eastin-Knill theorem, which connects the quality of a quantum error-correcting code (QECC) with its ability to achieve a universal set of transversal logical gates. Our derivation employs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Aleksander Kubica , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

The no-cloning theorem prohibits the creation of identical copies of quantum information, imposing fundamental constraints on quantum technologies. A recently proposed protocol, encrypted cloning, introduced by Yamaguchi and Kempf, showed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Zheng Liang Lim , Hoi-Kwong Lo