Security of One-Way Entanglement Purification with Quantum Sampling Against a Restricted Adversary

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10455v1
• Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 02:29:21 GMT
• Title: Security of One-Way Entanglement Purification with Quantum Sampling Against a Restricted Adversary
• Authors: Cameron Cianci
• Abstract summary: Entanglement purification protocols promise to play a critical role in the future of quantum networks by distributing entanglement across noisy channels. We propose a one-way entanglement purification protocol which utilizes quantum sampling and prove its security against an adversary restricted to single qubit Pauli gates.
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• Abstract: Entanglement purification protocols promise to play a critical role in the future of quantum networks by distributing entanglement across noisy channels. However, only the security of two-way purification protocols have been closely studied. To address this, we propose a one-way entanglement purification protocol which utilizes quantum sampling and prove its security against an adversary restricted to single qubit Pauli gates. This is done through leveraging the equivalence of one-way entanglement purification protocols with error-correcting codes. To prove the security of this protocol, we first use the quantum sampling framework introduced by Bouman and Fehr to estimate the Hamming weight of the qubits which passed through the channel and then use the estimated relative Hamming weight $\omega$ to determine the amount of interference that Eve has subjected to the quantum channel. Since Eve is restricted to single qubit Pauli gates, the number of applied gates can be directly estimated using the Hamming weight. Estimating the number of adversarial single qubit gates, allows us to perform error correction and disentangle the logical qubit from Eve with probability $1-\epsilon_{qu}^\delta$. Since this protocol allows communication only in one direction, the distance of the code must be decided before transmission, and therefore Bob will be forced to abort the protocol if he finds that Eve has applied more gates than the code can correct. One-way protocols may find use when communication is limited, or when we desire to decrease latency compared to the multiple rounds of communication needed in two-way protocols. Further research may investigate the security of this protocol against arbitrary single or multi-qubit gates to obtain security guarantees against a more general adversary.

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