1–26 Apr 2019
Nordita, Stockholm
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Distributed private randomness distillation

17 Apr 2019, 15:00
1h
122:026 (Nordita, Stockholm)

122:026

Nordita, Stockholm

Speaker

Dong Yang

Description

Dong Yang, University of Bergen
Distributed private randomness distillation

We develop the resource theory of private randomness extraction in the distributed and device- dependent scenario. We begin by introducing the notion of independent random bits, which are bipartite states containing ideal private randomness for each party, and motivate the natural set of free operations. As the main tool of our analysis, we introduce Virtual Quantum State Merging, which is essentially the flip side of Quantum State Merging, without communication. We focus on the bipartite case and find the rate regions achievable in different settings. Perhaps surprisingly, it turns out that local noise can boost randomness extraction. As a consequence of our analysis, we resolve a long-standing problem by giving an operational interpretation for the reverse coherent information in terms of the number of private random bits obtained by sending quantum states from one honest party (server) to another one (client) via the eavesdropped quantum channel.

Primary author

Prof. Dong Yang

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