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A Cryptographic Test of Quantumness and Certifiable Randomness from a Single Quantum Device

Quantum Physics 2021-05-06 v4 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We consider a new model for the testing of untrusted quantum devices, consisting of a single polynomial-time bounded quantum device interacting with a classical polynomial-time verifier. In this model we propose solutions to two tasks - a protocol for efficient classical verification that the untrusted device is "truly quantum," and a protocol for producing certifiable randomness from a single untrusted quantum device. Our solution relies on the existence of a new cryptographic primitive for constraining the power of an untrusted quantum device: post-quantum secure trapdoor claw-free functions which must satisfy an adaptive hardcore bit property. We show how to construct this primitive based on the hardness of the learning with errors (LWE) problem.

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@article{arxiv.1804.00640,
  title  = {A Cryptographic Test of Quantumness and Certifiable Randomness from a Single Quantum Device},
  author = {Zvika Brakerski and Paul Christiano and Urmila Mahadev and Umesh Vazirani and Thomas Vidick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.00640},
  year   = {2021}
}

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45 pages

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