Differentially private quantum sensor networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06521v1
• Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:27:30 GMT
• Title: Differentially private quantum sensor networks
• Abstract summary: We show that entangled quantum sensor networks are vulnerable to certain privacy-violating attacks.<n>We introduce secure sensing protocols endowed with differential privacy.<n>We prove that our protocols are resilient to attacks by broad classes of classical and quantum adversaries.
• Score: 1.5006258585503878
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Quantum sensing is a promising technology capable of demonstrating clear advantage over comparable classical techniques for precise measurement. One application of quantum sensing is in function estimation, which can be done using a network of entangled quantum sensors, allowing for measurements with greater optimal sensitivity than unentangled sensing protocols. In cases where quantum sensor networks will be used to measure data that should remain private (e.g., biomedical data), it is imperative that these protocols include a privacy mechanism to hide sensitive information. In this work, we show that entangled sensor networks are vulnerable to certain privacy-violating attacks. To mitigate these attacks, we introduce secure sensing protocols endowed with differential privacy. We reconcile differential privacy with retaining Heisenberg-limited scaling, and introduce several protocols achieving varying balances between the two. We show that our main protocol, an $n$-node network sensing protocol that injects noise directly into the sensing Hamiltonian, exhibits a tradeoff between the desirable $O(1/n^2)$ Heisenberg scaling of the mean-squared error of the function estimate and the level of privacy attainable. Under assumptions on the network (a common source of randomness and a constant fraction of honest parties), we show that this protocol is locally implementable and achieves $(O(1), δ)$-differential privacy for arbitrarily small $δ$ while retaining Heisenberg scaling of the mean-squared error. We prove that our protocols are resilient to attacks by broad classes of classical and quantum adversaries, and find advantages in the privacy-utility tradeoff when using quantum techniques.

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