Many unique attributes of quantum cryptography arise from the no-cloning property of quantum information. We study this using two closely-related types of uncloneability game: no-cloning and monogamy-of-entanglement games. In a no-cloning game, a referee sends a quantum state encoding classical information to two cooperating players who split the state, then try simultaneously guessing the information, provided the key. In a monogamy-of-entanglement game, two cooperating players try to guess the referee's measurement result on a tripartite state the players prepared.
In this work, we prove winning probability bounds on no-cloning games based on coset states, which have the interesting property that the players guess two different strings. We also show a rigidity property for the original monogamy-of-entanglement game, letting it be used as a test of separability. Finally, we apply these properties to construct a variety of novel cryptographic protocols for uncloneable encryption, quantum key distribution, bit commitment, and randomness expansion.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/44423 |
| Date | 22 December 2022 |
| Creators | Culf, Eric |
| Contributors | Broadbent, Anne |
| Publisher | Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Attribution 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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