Relating non-local quantum computation to information theoretic cryptography

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Main Authors: Allerstorfer, Rene, Buhrman, Harry, May, Alex, Speelman, Florian, Lunel, Philip Verduyn
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Published: 2023
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author Allerstorfer, Rene
Buhrman, Harry
May, Alex
Speelman, Florian
Lunel, Philip Verduyn
author_facet Allerstorfer, Rene
Buhrman, Harry
May, Alex
Speelman, Florian
Lunel, Philip Verduyn
contents Non-local quantum computation (NLQC) is a cheating strategy for position-verification schemes, and has appeared in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Here, we connect NLQC to the wider context of information theoretic cryptography by relating it to a number of other cryptographic primitives. We show one special case of NLQC, known as $f$-routing, is equivalent to the quantum analogue of the conditional disclosure of secrets (CDS) primitive, where by equivalent we mean that a protocol for one task gives a protocol for the other with only small overhead in resource costs. We further consider another special case of position verification, which we call coherent function evaluation (CFE), and show CFE protocols induce similarly efficient protocols for the private simultaneous message passing (PSM) scenario. By relating position-verification to these cryptographic primitives, a number of results in the cryptography literature give new implications for NLQC, and vice versa. These include the first sub-exponential upper bounds on the worst case cost of $f$-routing of $2^{O(\sqrt{n\log n})}$ entanglement, the first example of an efficient $f$-routing strategy for a problem believed to be outside $P/poly$, linear lower bounds on entanglement for CDS in the quantum setting, linear lower bounds on communication cost of CFE, and efficient protocols for CDS in the quantum setting for functions that can be computed with quantum circuits of low $T$ depth.
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Allerstorfer, Rene
Buhrman, Harry
May, Alex
Speelman, Florian
Lunel, Philip Verduyn
Quantum Physics
Non-local quantum computation (NLQC) is a cheating strategy for position-verification schemes, and has appeared in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Here, we connect NLQC to the wider context of information theoretic cryptography by relating it to a number of other cryptographic primitives. We show one special case of NLQC, known as $f$-routing, is equivalent to the quantum analogue of the conditional disclosure of secrets (CDS) primitive, where by equivalent we mean that a protocol for one task gives a protocol for the other with only small overhead in resource costs. We further consider another special case of position verification, which we call coherent function evaluation (CFE), and show CFE protocols induce similarly efficient protocols for the private simultaneous message passing (PSM) scenario. By relating position-verification to these cryptographic primitives, a number of results in the cryptography literature give new implications for NLQC, and vice versa. These include the first sub-exponential upper bounds on the worst case cost of $f$-routing of $2^{O(\sqrt{n\log n})}$ entanglement, the first example of an efficient $f$-routing strategy for a problem believed to be outside $P/poly$, linear lower bounds on entanglement for CDS in the quantum setting, linear lower bounds on communication cost of CFE, and efficient protocols for CDS in the quantum setting for functions that can be computed with quantum circuits of low $T$ depth.
title Relating non-local quantum computation to information theoretic cryptography
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16462