Model checking quantum Markov chains

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DOI10.1016/J.JCSS.2013.04.002zbMATH Open1311.68086arXiv1205.2187OpenAlexW2963787308MaRDI QIDQ394340FDOQ394340


Authors: Yuan Feng, Nengkun Yu, Mingsheng Ying Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 27 January 2014

Published in: Journal of Computer and System Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Although the security of quantum cryptography is provable based on the principles of quantum mechanics, it can be compromised by the flaws in the design of quantum protocols and the noise in their physical implementations. So, it is indispensable to develop techniques of verifying and debugging quantum cryptographic systems. Model-checking has proved to be effective in the verification of classical cryptographic protocols, but an essential difficulty arises when it is applied to quantum systems: the state space of a quantum system is always a continuum even when its dimension is finite. To overcome this difficulty, we introduce a novel notion of quantum Markov chain, specially suited to model quantum cryptographic protocols, in which quantum effects are entirely encoded into super-operators labelling transitions, leaving the location information (nodes) being classical. Then we define a quantum extension of probabilistic computation tree logic (PCTL) and develop a model-checking algorithm for quantum Markov chains.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2187




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