真多体纠缠并非安全会议密钥协商的先决条件
量子物理
2021-03-23 v2
摘要
纠缠在量子密钥分发的安全性中起着关键作用。正如 Curty 等人(2004)所示,仅当协议存在相应的基于纠缠的描述且其中纠缠可被证实时,两方才能获得秘密密钥。本文研究纠缠在量子密钥分发推广到多体情形(即会议密钥协商)中的作用。我们特别追问:最强形式的多体纠缠,即真多体纠缠,是否为建立会议密钥所必需。我们出乎意料地表明,即使各方在协议的每一轮中共享双可分态,仍可获得非零的会议密钥。此外,我们将会议密钥协商与纠缠见证联系起来,并证明非零会议密钥可解释为一种非线性纠缠见证,其能探测一类通常线性纠缠见证无法探测的态。
引用
@article{arxiv.2007.11553,
title = {Genuine multipartite entanglement is not a precondition for secure conference key agreement},
author = {Giacomo Carrara and Hermann Kampermann and Dagmar Bruß and Gláucia Murta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.11553},
year = {2021}
}
备注
5 + 5 pages, 4 figures. v02: Strengthened results, including performance of the family of biseparable states under consideration for the N-BB84 protocol. Section III of supplemental material of v01 removed, as it contained an example state mistakenly claimed to be biseparable