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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

Quantum computing (QC) is poised to revolutionize problem solving across various fields, with research suggesting that systems with over 50 qubits may achieve quantum advantage surpassing supercomputers in certain optimization tasks. As the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Suryansh Upadhyay , Swaroop Ghosh

Fingerprinting of quantum computer devices is a new threat that poses a challenge to shared, cloud-based quantum computers. Fingerprinting can allow adversaries to map quantum computer infrastructures, uniquely identify cloud-based devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Allen Mi , Shuwen Deng , Jakub Szefer

In this letter, we concentrate on the very recently proposed Measurement Device Independent Quantum Key Distribution (MDI QKD) protocol by Lo, Curty and Qi (PRL, 2012). We study how one can suitably present an eavesdropping strategy on MDI…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-07 Arpita Maitra

Advanced tensor network numerical methods are used to explore the fidelity of repeated SWAP operations on a system comprising 20-100 quantum dot spin qubits in the presence of valley leakage and electrostatic crosstalk. The fidelity of SWAP…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Jacob R. Taylor , Nathan L. Foulk , Sankar Das Sarma

Multi-programming quantum computers improve device utilization and throughput. However, crosstalk from concurrent two-qubit CNOT gates poses security risks, compromising the fidelity and output of co-running victim programs. We design Zero…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Avinash Kumar , Meng Wang , Chenxu Liu , Ang Li , Prashant J. Nair , Poulami Das

In order to achieve speedup over conventional classical computing for finding solution of computationally hard problems, quantum computing was introduced. Quantum algorithms can be simulated in a pseudo quantum environment, but…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Mrityunjay Ghosh , Nivedita Dey , Debdeep Mitra , Amlan Chakrabarti

Quantum key distribution algorithms are considered secure because they leverage quantum phenomena to provide security. As such, eavesdroppers can be detected by analyzing the error rate in the shared key obtained by the parties performing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Christopher Dunne

Quantum crosstalk poses a major challenge to scaling up quantum computations as its strength is typically unknown and its effect accumulates exponentially as system size grows. Here, we show that many-body robust control can be utilized to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Nguyen H. Le , Florian Mintert , Eran Ginossar

Quantum communication addresses the problem of exchanging information across macroscopic distances by employing encryption techniques based on quantum mechanical laws. Here, we advance a new paradigm for secure quantum communication by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 R. Di Candia , H. Yiğitler , G. S. Paraoanu , R. Jäntti

Quantum computing is performed on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware in the short term. Only small circuits can be executed reliably on a quantum machine due to the unavoidable noisy quantum operations on NISQ devices, leading…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Siyuan Niu , Aida Todri-Sanial

This work explores and evaluates noise and crosstalk in neutral atom quantum computers. Neutral atom quantum computers are a promising platform for analog Hamiltonian simulations, which rely on a sequence of time-dependent Hamiltonians to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Pranet Sharma , Yizhuo Tan , Konstantinos-Nikolaos Papadopoulos , Jakub Szefer

The prevalence of quantum crosstalk in current quantum devices poses challenges for achieving high-fidelity quantum logic operations and reliable quantum processing. Through quantum control theory, we develop an analytical condition for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Zeyuan Zhou , Ryan Sitler , Yasuo Oda , Kevin Schultz , Gregory Quiroz

Fast development of supercomputer and perspective quantum computer is posing increasing serious threats to communication security. Based on the laws of quantum mechanics, quantum communication offers provable security of communication, and…

Quantum computing offers unparalleled computational capabilities but faces significant challenges, including limited qubit counts, diverse hardware topologies, and dynamic noise/error rates, which hinder scalability and reliability.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Zefan Du , Yanni Li , Zijian Mo , Wenqi Wei , Juntao Chen , Rajkumar Buyya , Ying Mao

We introduce IMPACT, a set of high-throughput main memory-based timing attacks that leverage characteristics of processing-in-memory (PiM) architectures to establish covert and side channels. IMPACT enables high-throughput communication and…

A two-layer quantum protocol for secure transmission of data using qubits is presented. The protocol is an improvement over the BB84 QKD protocol. BB84, in conjunction with the one-time pad algorithm, has been shown to be unconditionally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-03 Saied Hosseini-Khayat , Iman Marvian

Circuit knitting emerges as a promising technique to overcome the limitation of the few physical qubits in near-term quantum hardware by cutting large quantum circuits into smaller subcircuits. Recent research in this area has been…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Xiangyu Ren , Mengyu Zhang , Antonio Barbalace

Side-channel attacks currently constitute the main challenge for quantum key distribution (QKD) to bridge theory with practice. So far two main approaches have been introduced to address this problem, (full) device-independent QKD and…

Quantum circuits form a foundational framework in quantum science, enabling the description, analysis, and implementation of quantum computations. However, designing efficient circuits, typically constructed from single- and two-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Yadong Wu , Pengfei Zhang , Ce Wang , Juan Yao , Yi-Zhuang You