Variational Quantum Cloning: Improving Practicality for Quantum Cryptanalysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11424v1
• Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:28:09 GMT
• Title: Variational Quantum Cloning: Improving Practicality for Quantum Cryptanalysis
• Authors: Brian Coyle, Mina Doosti, Elham Kashefi, Niraj Kumar
• Abstract summary: We propose variational quantum cloning (VQC), a machine learning based cryptanalysis algorithm. VQC allows an adversary to obtain optimal (approximate) cloning strategies with short depth quantum circuits. We derive attacks on two protocols as examples, based on quantum cloning and facilitated by VQC.
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• Abstract: Cryptanalysis on standard quantum cryptographic systems generally involves finding optimal adversarial attack strategies on the underlying protocols. The core principle of modelling quantum attacks in many cases reduces to the adversary's ability to clone unknown quantum states which facilitates the extraction of some meaningful secret information. Explicit optimal attack strategies typically require high computational resources due to large circuit depths or, in many cases, are unknown. In this work, we propose variational quantum cloning (VQC), a quantum machine learning based cryptanalysis algorithm which allows an adversary to obtain optimal (approximate) cloning strategies with short depth quantum circuits, trained using hybrid classical-quantum techniques. The algorithm contains operationally meaningful cost functions with theoretical guarantees, quantum circuit structure learning and gradient descent based optimisation. Our approach enables the end-to-end discovery of hardware efficient quantum circuits to clone specific families of quantum states, which in turn leads to an improvement in cloning fidelites when implemented on quantum hardware: the Rigetti Aspen chip. Finally, we connect these results to quantum cryptographic primitives, in particular quantum coin flipping. We derive attacks on two protocols as examples, based on quantum cloning and facilitated by VQC. As a result, our algorithm can improve near term attacks on these protocols, using approximate quantum cloning as a resource.

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