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We use quantum entanglement witnesses derived from Gaussian operators to study the separable criteria of continuous variable states. We transform the validity of a Gaussian witness to a Bosonic Gaussian channel problem. It follows that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Xiao-yu Chen , Maoke Miao , Rui Yin , Jiantao Yuan

Werner and Wolf have proven in Phys. Rev. Lett. 86(16) (2001) a very elegant necessary and sufficient condition for a bosonic continuous variable bipartite Gaussian mixed quantum state to be separable. This condition is, however, difficult…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Maurice de Gosson

We review the theory of continuous-variable entanglement with special emphasis on foundational aspects, conceptual structures, and mathematical methods. Much attention is devoted to the discussion of separability criteria and entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-02 Gerardo Adesso , Fabrizio Illuminati

We consider the federated learning problem where data on workers are not independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.). During the learning process, an unknown number of Byzantine workers may send malicious messages to the central node,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jie Peng , Zhaoxian Wu , Qing Ling , Tianyi Chen

We explore asynchronous unison in the presence of systemic transient and permanent Byzantine faults in shared memory. We observe that the problem is not solvable under less than strongly fair scheduler or for system topologies with maximum…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-12-02 Swan Dubois , Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru , Mikhail Nesterenko , Sébastien Tixeuil

This paper aims to solve a distributed learning problem under Byzantine attacks. In the underlying distributed system, a number of unknown but malicious workers (termed as Byzantine workers) can send arbitrary messages to the master and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Feng Lin , Weiyu Li , Qing Ling

We present new protocols for Byzantine state machine replication and Byzantine agreement in the synchronous and authenticated setting. The celebrated PBFT state machine replication protocol tolerates $f$ Byzantine faults in an asynchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Ittai Abraham , Srinivas Devadas , Danny Dolev , Kartik Nayak , Ling Ren

Byzantine reliable broadcast is a fundamental problem in distributed computing, which has been studied extensively over the past decades. State-of-the-art algorithms are predominantly based on the approach to share encoded fragments of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Thomas Locher

This paper investigates the problem \textit{good-case latency} of Byzantine agreement, broadcast and state machine replication in the synchronous authenticated setting. The good-case latency measure captures the time it takes to reach…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Ittai Abraham , Kartik Nayak , Ling Ren , Zhuolun Xiang

This paper describes a simple and efficient asynchronous Binary Byzantine faulty tolerant consensus algorithm. In the algorithm, non-faulty nodes perform an initial broadcast followed by a executing a series of rounds each consisting of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Tyler Crain

A continuous variable controlled quantum dialogue scheme is proposed. The scheme is further modified to obtain two other protocols of continuous variable secure multiparty computation. The first one of these protocols provides a solution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Ashwin Saxena , Kishore Thapliyal , Anirban Pathak

The distributed source coding problem is considered when the sensors, or encoders, are under Byzantine attack; that is, an unknown number of sensors have been reprogrammed by a malicious intruder to undermine the reconstruction at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Oliver Kosut , Lang Tong

In the context of Byzantine consensus problems such as Byzantine broadcast (BB) and Byzantine agreement (BA), the good-case setting aims to study the minimal possible latency of a BB or BA protocol under certain favorable conditions, namely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yuval Efron , Joachim Neu , Ling Ren , Ertem Nusret Tas

Quantum algorithms offer a compelling new avenue for addressing difficult NP-complete optimization problems, such as the Generalized Assignment Problem (GAP). Given the operational constraints of contemporary Noisy Intermediate-Scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Carlo Mastroianni , Francesco Plastina , Jacopo Settino , Andrea Vinci

We consider the problems arising from the presence of Byzantine servers in a quantum private information retrieval (QPIR) setting. This is the first work to precisely define what the capabilities of Byzantine servers could be in a QPIR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Mohamed Nomeir , Alptug Aytekin , Sennur Ulukus

Quantum information science breaks limitations of conventional information transfer, cryptography and computation by using quantum superpositions or entanglement as resources for information processing. Here, we report on the experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Massimiliano Smania , Ashraf M. Elhassan , Armin Tavakoli , Mohamed Bourennane

Exact Byzantine consensus problem requires that non-faulty processes reach agreement on a decision (or output) that is in the convex hull of the inputs at the non-faulty processes. It is well-known that exact consensus is impossible in an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Zhuolun Xiang , Nitin H. Vaidya

We propose the continuous-variable quantum key distribution protocol based on the Gaussian modulation of a single quadrature of the coherent states of light, which is aimed to provide simplified implementation compared to the symmetrically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Vladyslav C. Usenko , Frédéric Grosshans

Quantum bit commitment has long been known to be impossible. Nevertheless, just as in the classical case, imposing certain constraints on the power of the parties may enable the construction of asymptotically secure protocols. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 A. Mandilara , N. J. Cerf

This paper studies the Byzantine Agreement problem where the nodes have access to a predictor that flags nodes for suspicion of faulty (Byzantine) behavior. We focus on algorithmic resilience -- the maximum number of faulty nodes an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Julien Dallot , Darya Melnyk , Tijana Milentijevic , Stefan Schmid , Patrik Welters