Composably Secure Delegated Quantum Computation with Weak Coherent Pulses

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08559v1
• Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:47:52 GMT
• Title: Composably Secure Delegated Quantum Computation with Weak Coherent Pulses
• Authors: Maxime Garnier, Dominik Leichtle, Luka Music, Harold Ollivier,
• Abstract summary: Secure Delegated Quantum Computation protocols allow a client to delegate a quantum computation to a powerful remote server.<n>This paper shows how to alleviate the necessity for the client to have a single-photon source.<n>It proposes a protocol that ensures that among a sufficiently large block of transmitted weak coherent pulses, at least one of them was emitted as a single photon.
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• Abstract: Secure Delegated Quantum Computation (SDQC) protocols allow a client to delegate a quantum computation to a powerful remote server while ensuring the privacy and the integrity of its computation. Recent resource-efficient and noise-robust protocols led to experimental proofs of concept. Yet, their physical requirements are still too stringent to be added directly to the roadmap of quantum hardware vendors. To address part of this issue, this paper shows how to alleviate the necessity for the client to have a single-photon source. It proposes a protocol that ensures that, among a sufficiently large block of transmitted weak coherent pulses, at least one of them was emitted as a single photon. This can then be used through quantum privacy amplification techniques to prepare a single secure qubit to be used in an SDQC protocol. As such, the obtained guarantee can also be used for Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) where the privacy amplification step is classical. In doing so, it proposes a workaround for a weakness in the security proof of the decoy state method. The simplest instantiation of the protocol with only 2 intensities already shows improved scaling at low transmittance and adds verifiability to previous SDQC proposals.

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