Quantum-private distributed sensing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00970v3
• Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:00:05 GMT
• Title: Quantum-private distributed sensing
• Authors: Joseph Ho, Jonathan W. Webb, Russell M. J. Brooks, Federico Grasselli, Erik Gauger, Alessandro Fedrizzi,
• Abstract summary: Quantum networks can enhance both security and privacy conditions for multi-user communication, delegated computation, and distributed sensing tasks.<n>An example quantum protocol is private parameter estimation (PPE) where only the aggregate information is accessible while individual sensor data remain confidential.<n>We implement the PPE protocol by distributing a three-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state, among three sensors, which is verified using stabilizer measurements to establish privacy and precision bounds for the sensing task.
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• Abstract: Quantum networks can enhance both security and privacy conditions for multi-user communication, delegated computation, and distributed sensing tasks. An example quantum protocol is private parameter estimation (PPE) where only the aggregate information is accessible while individual sensor data remain confidential. Specifically, the protocol enables the estimation of a global function of remote sensor parameters without revealing local parameters to any entity. We implement the PPE protocol by distributing a three-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state, among three sensors, which is verified using stabilizer measurements to establish privacy and precision bounds for the sensing task. We demonstrate Heisenberg-limited precision scaling of the global parameter while suppressing the metrological information of the local parameters by up to three orders of magnitude. This work, which integrates privacy in distributed quantum sensing, marks a crucial step towards developing advanced quantum-secure-and-private protocols in complex quantum networks.

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