A General Quantum Duality for Representations of Groups with Applications to Quantum Money, Lightning, and Fire

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Hauptverfasser: Bostanci, John, Nehoran, Barak, Zhandry, Mark
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author Bostanci, John
Nehoran, Barak
Zhandry, Mark
author_facet Bostanci, John
Nehoran, Barak
Zhandry, Mark
contents Aaronson, Atia, and Susskind (2020) established that efficiently mapping between quantum states $|ψ\rangle$ and $|ϕ\rangle$ is computationally equivalent to distinguishing their superpositions $|ψ\rangle \pm |ϕ\rangle$. We generalize this insight into a broader duality principle, wherein manipulating quantum states in one basis is equivalent to extracting their value in a complementary basis. This general duality principle states that the ability to implement a unitary representation of a group is computationally equivalent to the ability to perform a Fourier subspace extraction from its irreducible representations. Building on our duality principle, we present the following applications: * We extend the construction of publicly-key quantum money of Zhandry (2024) from Abelian group actions to a construction of quantum lightning from non-Abelian group actions, and eliminate Zhandry's reliance on a black-box model for justifying security. Instead, we prove a direct reduction to a computational assumption -- the pre-action security of cryptographic group actions. Our construction is realizable with symmetric group actions, including those implicit in the McEliece cryptosystem. * We provide an alternative quantum lightning construction from one-way homomorphisms, with security holding under certain conditions. This scheme shows equivalence among four security notions: quantum lightning security, worst-case and average-case cloning security, and security against preparing a canonical state. * We formalize the notion of quantum fire, states that are efficiently clonable, but not efficiently telegraphable. These states can be spread like fire, provided they are kept alive quantumly and do not decohere. The only previously known construction relied on a unitary quantum oracle, whereas we present the first candidate construction of quantum fire using a classical oracle.
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spellingShingle A General Quantum Duality for Representations of Groups with Applications to Quantum Money, Lightning, and Fire
Bostanci, John
Nehoran, Barak
Zhandry, Mark
Quantum Physics
Cryptography and Security
Aaronson, Atia, and Susskind (2020) established that efficiently mapping between quantum states $|ψ\rangle$ and $|ϕ\rangle$ is computationally equivalent to distinguishing their superpositions $|ψ\rangle \pm |ϕ\rangle$. We generalize this insight into a broader duality principle, wherein manipulating quantum states in one basis is equivalent to extracting their value in a complementary basis. This general duality principle states that the ability to implement a unitary representation of a group is computationally equivalent to the ability to perform a Fourier subspace extraction from its irreducible representations. Building on our duality principle, we present the following applications: * We extend the construction of publicly-key quantum money of Zhandry (2024) from Abelian group actions to a construction of quantum lightning from non-Abelian group actions, and eliminate Zhandry's reliance on a black-box model for justifying security. Instead, we prove a direct reduction to a computational assumption -- the pre-action security of cryptographic group actions. Our construction is realizable with symmetric group actions, including those implicit in the McEliece cryptosystem. * We provide an alternative quantum lightning construction from one-way homomorphisms, with security holding under certain conditions. This scheme shows equivalence among four security notions: quantum lightning security, worst-case and average-case cloning security, and security against preparing a canonical state. * We formalize the notion of quantum fire, states that are efficiently clonable, but not efficiently telegraphable. These states can be spread like fire, provided they are kept alive quantumly and do not decohere. The only previously known construction relied on a unitary quantum oracle, whereas we present the first candidate construction of quantum fire using a classical oracle.
title A General Quantum Duality for Representations of Groups with Applications to Quantum Money, Lightning, and Fire
topic Quantum Physics
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00529