Self-consistent tomography and measurement-device independent cryptography

DOI10.1142/S0219749920400031zbMATH Open1486.81026arXiv2006.06559OpenAlexW3039365077MaRDI QIDQ5037893FDOQ5037893

Authors: Steven J. van Enk, Ian D. Moore 

Publication date: 4 March 2022

Published in: International Journal of Quantum Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A recurring problem in quantum mechanics is to estimate either the state of a quantum system or the measurement operator applied to it. If we wish to estimate both, then the difficulty is that the state and the measurement always appear together: to estimate the state, we must use a measurement; to estimate the measurement operator, we must use a state. The data of such quantum estimation experiments come in the form of measurement frequencies. Ideally, the measured average frequencies can be attributed to an average state and an average measurement operator. If this is not the case, we have correlated state-preparation-and-measurement (SPAM) errors. We extend some tests developed to detect such correlated errors to apply to a cryptographic scenario in which two parties trust their individual states but not the measurement performed on the joint state.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06559

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum key distributionmeasurement tomography

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum coding (general) (81P70) Quantum cryptography (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P94) Error probability in coding theory (94B70) Quantum state tomography, quantum state discrimination (81P18)

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• Quantum cryptography based on Bell’s theorem
• Description of States in Quantum Mechanics by Density Matrix and Operator Techniques
• Self-calibration for self-consistent tomography

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