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We present a security analysis of the recently introduced Quantum Private Query (QPQ) protocol. It is a cheat sensitive quantum protocol to perform a private search on a classical database. It allows a user to retrieve an item from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Vittorio Giovannetti , Seth Lloyd , Lorenzo Maccone

How could quantum cryptography help us achieve what are not achievable in classical cryptography? In this work we study the classical cryptographic problem that two parties would like to perform secure computations with long outputs. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Jiayu Zhang

The ability to perform computations on encrypted data is a powerful tool for protecting privacy. Recently, protocols to achieve this on classical computing systems have been found. Here we present an efficient solution to the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 K. Fisher , A. Broadbent , L. K. Shalm , Z. Yan , J. Lavoie , R. Prevedel , T. Jennewein , K. J. Resch

This paper introduces a novel lower bound on communication complexity using quantum relative entropy and mutual information, refining previous classical entropy-based results. By leveraging Uhlmann's lemma and quantum Pinsker inequalities,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Fengxia Liu , Zhiyong Zheng , Kun Tian , Yi Zhang , Heng Guo , Zhe Hu , Oleksiy Zhedanov , Zixian Gong

A quantum protocol is described which enables a user to send sealed messages and that allows for the detection of active eavesdroppers. We examine a class of eavesdropping strategies, those that make use of quantum operations, and we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul A Lopata , Thomas B Bahder

We consider a two-user secure computation problem in which Alice and Bob communicate interactively in order to compute some deterministic functions of the inputs. The privacy requirement is that each user should not learn any additional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Gowtham R. Kurri , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

By sending systems in specially prepared quantum states, two parties can communicate without an eavesdropper being able to listen. The technique, called quantum cryptography, enables one to verify that the state of the quantum system has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karol Horodecki , Michal Horodecki , Pawel Horodecki , Debbie Leung , Jonathan Oppenheim

We study quantum protocols among two distrustful parties. Under the sole assumption of correctness - guaranteeing that honest players obtain their correct outcomes - we show that every protocol implementing a non-trivial primitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-31 Louis Salvail , Christian Schaffner , Miroslava Sotakova

We discuss a novel approach to quantum information processing with molecules based on molecular degrees of freedom which are isolated from the environment as well as from the rest of the molecule. Such a degree of freedom can provide…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Martin Zeppenfeld

Quantum homomorphic encryption, which allows computation by a server directly on encrypted data, is a fundamental primitive out of which more complex quantum cryptography protocols can be built. For such constructions to be possible,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Yanglin Hu , Yingkai Ouyang , Marco Tomamichel

Existing quantum cryptographic schemes are not, as they stand, operable in the presence of noise on the quantum communication channel. Although they become operable if they are supplemented by classical privacy-amplification techniques, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 D. Deutsch , A. Ekert , R. Jozsa , C. Macchiavello , S. Popescu , A. Sanpera

Quantum key distribution relies on quantum mechanics to securely distribute cryptographic keys, offering security but necessitating complex infrastructure and significant resources for practical implementation. Quantum keyless private…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Pedro Neto Mendes , Davide Rusca , Hugo Zbinden , Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro

Leakage of confidential information represents a serious security risk. Despite a number of novel, theoretical advances, it has been unclear if and how quantitative approaches to measuring leakage of confidential information could be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-07-07 Jonathan Heusser , Pasquale Malacaria

How to solve the information leakage problem has become the research focus of quantum dialogue. In this paper, in order to overcome the information leakage problem in quantum dialogue, a novel approach for sharing the initial quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Tian-Yu Ye

Quantum entanglement, perhaps the most non-classical manifestation of quantum information theory, cannot be used to transmit information between remote parties. Yet, it can be used to reduce the amount of communication required to process a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Gilles Brassard , Anne Broadbent , Alain Tapp

We derive a simple relation between a quantum channel's capacity to convey coherent (quantum) information and its usefulness for quantum cryptography.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Benjamin Schumacher , Michael D. Westmoreland

Quantum computing is an emerging paradigm that has shown great promise in accelerating large-scale scientific, optimization, and machine-learning workloads. With most quantum computing solutions being offered over the cloud, it has become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Tirthak Patel , Daniel Silver , Aditya Ranjan , Harshitta Gandhi , William Cutler , Devesh Tiwari

We consider interactive computation of randomized functions between two users with the following privacy requirement: the interaction should not reveal to either user any extra information about the other user's input and output other than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Deepesh Data , Gowtham R. Kurri , Jithin Ravi , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

With the extensive applications of machine learning, the issue of private or sensitive data in the training examples becomes more and more serious: during the training process, personal information or habits may be disclosed to unexpected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Shenggang Ying , Mingsheng Ying , Yuan Feng

We study quantum communication protocols, in which the players' storage starts out in a state where one qubit is in a pure state, and all other qubits are totally mixed (i.e. in a random state), and no other storage is available (for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Hartmut Klauck , Debbie Lim