Experimental Private Quantum Networked Sensing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16743v1
• Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:16:53 GMT
• Title: Experimental Private Quantum Networked Sensing
• Abstract summary: We introduce a noise-robust protocol for private quantum networked sensing.<n>We simulate attacks using three different quantum states, a four-qubit GHZ state, two Bell pairs, and a fully separable state.
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• Abstract: Entangling distant quantum sensors is a key application of future quantum networks, allowing for the estimation of global functions of local parameters, with precision that is not possible with stand-alone, individual, quantum sensors. However, with this advantage comes the risk of information leakage over the network via possible malicious parties. It is often particularly important that local parameters remain unknown and that only the global function is shared across the network. Recently, the notion of privacy has been introduced in this context, which ensures that only the agreed function of parameters is shared over the network, even when malicious parties control the network itself, whilst maintaining the estimation advantage. In this work, we introduce a noise-robust protocol for private quantum networked sensing, which we realise using a high-fidelity Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state source. We further run a comparative analysis and simulate attacks using three different quantum states, a four-qubit GHZ state, two Bell pairs, and a fully separable state. Our results highlight the clear advantage of GHZ states in maintaining high precision, accuracy, and privacy for the distributed estimation task.

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