The curious case of "XOR repetition" of monogamy-of-entanglement games

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Autori principali: Coladangelo, Andrea, Liu, Qipeng, Xie, Ziyi
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author Coladangelo, Andrea
Liu, Qipeng
Xie, Ziyi
author_facet Coladangelo, Andrea
Liu, Qipeng
Xie, Ziyi
contents In this work, we consider "decision" variants of a monogamy-of-entanglement game by Tomamichel, Fehr, Kaniewski, and Wehner [New Journal of Physics '13]. In its original "search" variant, Alice prepares a (possibly entangled) state on registers $\mathsf{ABC}$; register $\mathsf{A}$, consisting of $n$ qubits, is sent to a Referee, while $\mathsf{B}$ and $\mathsf{C}$ are sent to Bob and Charlie; the Referee then measures each qubit in the standard or Hadamard basis (chosen uniformly at random). The basis choices are sent to Bob and Charlie, whose goal is to simultaneously guess the Referee's $n$-bit outcome string $x$. Tomamichel et al. show that the optimal winning probability is $\cos^{2n} {(\fracπ{8})}$, following a perfect parallel repetition theorem. We consider the following "decision" variants of this game: - Variant 1, "XOR repetition": Bob and Charlie's goal is to guess the XOR of all the bits of $x$. Ananth et al. [Asiacrypt '24] conjectured that the optimal advantage over random guessing decays exponentially in $n$. Surprisingly, we show that this conjecture is false, and, in fact, there is no decay at all: there exists a strategy that wins with probability $\cos^2{(\fracπ{8})} \approx 0.85$ for any $n$. - Variant 2, "Goldreich-Levin": The Referee additionally samples a uniformly random $n$-bit string $r$ that is sent to Bob and Charlie along with the basis choices. Their goal is to guess the parity of $r\cdot x$. We show that the optimal advantage over random guessing decays exponentially in $n$ for the restricted class of adversaries that do not share entanglement. A similar result was already shown by Champion et al. and Çakan et al.; we give a more direct proof. Additionally, we put forward a reasonably concrete conjecture that is equivalent to exponential decay for general adversaries.
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Coladangelo, Andrea
Liu, Qipeng
Xie, Ziyi
Quantum Physics
In this work, we consider "decision" variants of a monogamy-of-entanglement game by Tomamichel, Fehr, Kaniewski, and Wehner [New Journal of Physics '13]. In its original "search" variant, Alice prepares a (possibly entangled) state on registers $\mathsf{ABC}$; register $\mathsf{A}$, consisting of $n$ qubits, is sent to a Referee, while $\mathsf{B}$ and $\mathsf{C}$ are sent to Bob and Charlie; the Referee then measures each qubit in the standard or Hadamard basis (chosen uniformly at random). The basis choices are sent to Bob and Charlie, whose goal is to simultaneously guess the Referee's $n$-bit outcome string $x$. Tomamichel et al. show that the optimal winning probability is $\cos^{2n} {(\fracπ{8})}$, following a perfect parallel repetition theorem. We consider the following "decision" variants of this game: - Variant 1, "XOR repetition": Bob and Charlie's goal is to guess the XOR of all the bits of $x$. Ananth et al. [Asiacrypt '24] conjectured that the optimal advantage over random guessing decays exponentially in $n$. Surprisingly, we show that this conjecture is false, and, in fact, there is no decay at all: there exists a strategy that wins with probability $\cos^2{(\fracπ{8})} \approx 0.85$ for any $n$. - Variant 2, "Goldreich-Levin": The Referee additionally samples a uniformly random $n$-bit string $r$ that is sent to Bob and Charlie along with the basis choices. Their goal is to guess the parity of $r\cdot x$. We show that the optimal advantage over random guessing decays exponentially in $n$ for the restricted class of adversaries that do not share entanglement. A similar result was already shown by Champion et al. and Çakan et al.; we give a more direct proof. Additionally, we put forward a reasonably concrete conjecture that is equivalent to exponential decay for general adversaries.
title The curious case of "XOR repetition" of monogamy-of-entanglement games
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01831