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The complexity class Quantum Statistical Zero-Knowledge ($\mathsf{QSZK}$), introduced by Watrous (FOCS 2002) and later refined in Watrous (SICOMP, 2009), has the best known upper bound $\mathsf{QIP(2)} \cap \text{co-}\mathsf{QIP(2)}$, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 François Le Gall , Yupan Liu , Qisheng Wang

This survey provides a comprehensive examination of verifiable computing, tracing its evolution from foundational complexity theory to modern zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (ZK-SNARKs). We explore key…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Angold Wang

Bob has a black box that emits a single pure state qudit which is, from his perspective, uniformly distributed. Alice wishes to give Bob evidence that she has knowledge about the emitted state while giving him little or no information about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Emily Adlam , Adrian Kent

We construct perfect zero-knowledge probabilistically checkable proofs (PZK-PCPs) for every language in #P. This is the first construction of a PZK-PCP for any language outside BPP. Furthermore, unlike previous constructions of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Tom Gur , Jack O'Connor , Nicholas Spooner

In this paper we consider quantum interactive proof systems, i.e., interactive proof systems in which the prover and verifier may perform quantum computations and exchange quantum messages. It is proved that every language in PSPACE has a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 John Watrous

Over recent decades, machine learning has significantly advanced network communication, enabling improved decision-making, user behavior analysis, and fault detection. Decentralized approaches, where participants exchange computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhibo Xing , Zijian Zhang , Ziang Zhang , Zhen Li , Meng Li , Jiamou Liu , Zongyang Zhang , Yi Zhao , Qi Sun , Liehuang Zhu , Giovanni Russello

The traditional definition of quantum zero-knowledge stipulates that the knowledge gained by any quantum polynomial-time verifier in an interactive protocol can be simulated by a quantum polynomial-time algorithm. One drawback of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Prabhanjan Ananth , Alex B. Grilo

Zero knowledge plays a central role in cryptography and complexity. The seminal work of Ben-Or et al. (STOC 1988) shows that zero knowledge can be achieved unconditionally for any language in NEXP, as long as one is willing to make a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-12 Alessandro Chiesa , Michael A. Forbes , Tom Gur , Nicholas Spooner

We initiate the study of relativistic zero-knowledge quantum proof of knowledge systems with classical communication, formally defining a number of useful concepts and constructing appropriate knowledge extractors for all the existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Kaiyan Shi , Kaushik Chakraborty , Wen Yu Kon , Omar Amer , Marco Pistoia , Charles Lim

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) have evolved from a theoretical cryptographic concept into a powerful tool for implementing privacy-preserving and verifiable applications without requiring trust assumptions. Despite significant progress in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Stefanos Chaliasos , Imam Al-Fath , Alastair Donaldson

A "no-knowledge" measurement of an open quantum system yields no information about any system observable; it only returns noise input from the environment. Surprisingly, performing such a no-knowledge measurement can be advantageous. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Stuart S. Szigeti , Andre R. R. Carvalho , James G. Morley , Michael R. Hush

This paper investigates the power of quantum statistical zero knowledge interactive proof systems in the relativized setting. We prove the existence of an oracle relative to which quantum statistical zero-knowledge does not contain UP…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Sanketh Menda , John Watrous

Relativistic cryptography is a proposal for achieving unconditional security that exploits the fact that no information carrier can travel faster than the speed of light. It is based on space-time constraints but doesn't require quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 André Chailloux , Yann Barsamian

We show that any number of parties can coherently exchange any one pure quantum state for another, without communication, given prior shared entanglement. Two applications of this fact to the study of multi-prover quantum interactive proof…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-11 Debbie Leung , Ben Toner , John Watrous

Zero-knowledge proofs have always provided a clear solution when it comes to conveying information from a prover to a verifier or vice versa without revealing essential information about the process. Advancements in zero-knowledge have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Aritra Banerjee , Michael Clear , Hitesh Tewari

We provide a generic construction to turn any classical Zero-Knowledge (ZK) protocol into a composable (quantum) oblivious transfer (OT) protocol, mostly lifting the round-complexity properties and security guarantees…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Léo Colisson , Garazi Muguruza , Florian Speelman

We present the first non-interactive zero-knowledge argument system for QMA with multi-theorem security. Our protocol setup constitutes an additional improvement and is constructed in the malicious designated-verifier (MDV-NIZK) model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Omri Shmueli

We propose and construct a quantum money scheme that allows verification through classical communication with a bank. This is the first demonstration that a secure quantum money scheme exists that does not require quantum communication for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Dmytro Gavinsky

In the context of cloud computing, services are held on cloud servers, where the clients send their data to the server and obtain the results returned by server. However, the computation, data and results are prone to tampering due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yancheng Zhang , Mengxin Zheng , Xun Chen , Jingtong Hu , Weidong Shi , Lei Ju , Yan Solihin , Qian Lou

We construct a publicly-verifiable non-interactive zero-knowledge argument system for QMA with the following properties. 1. Transparent setup. Our protocol only requires a uniformly random string (URS) setup. The only prior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 James Bartusek , Ruta Jawale , Justin Raizes , Kabir Tomer