Impossibility of adversarial self-testing and secure sampling

Self-testing is the task where spatially separated Alice and Bob cooperate to deduce the inner workings of untrusted quantum devices by interacting with them in a classical manner. We examine the task above where Alice and Bob do not trust each other which we call adversarial self-testing. We show t...

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Main Authors: Akshay Bansal, Atul Singh Arora, Thomas Van Himbeeck, Jamie Sikora
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado: American Physical Society 2024-08-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Acceso en liña:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L032039
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Summary:Self-testing is the task where spatially separated Alice and Bob cooperate to deduce the inner workings of untrusted quantum devices by interacting with them in a classical manner. We examine the task above where Alice and Bob do not trust each other which we call adversarial self-testing. We show that adversarial self-testing implies secure sampling—a simpler task that we introduce where distrustful Alice and Bob wish to sample from a joint probability distribution with the guarantee that an honest party's marginal is not biased. By extending impossibility results in two-party quantum cryptography, we give a simple proof that both of these tasks are impossible in all but trivial settings.
ISSN:2643-1564