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arXiv:2111.02467 · Physical Review A

Fundamental limitations on the device-independent quantum conference key agreement

Karol Horodecki, Marek Winczewski, Siddhartha Das

Published Feb 7, 2022• 18 citations
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Abstract

We provide several general upper bounds on the rate of a key secure against a quantum adversary in the device-independent conference key agreement (DI-CKA) scenario. They include bounds by reduced entanglement measures and those based on multipartite secrecy monotones such as a multipartite squashed entanglement-based measure, which we refer to as reduced c-squashed entanglement. We compare the latter bound with the known lower bound for the protocol of conference key distillation based on the parity Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt game. We also show that the gap between the DI-CKA rate and the device-dependent rate is inherited from the bipartite gap between device-independent and device-dependent key rates, giving examples that exhibit the strict gap.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.105.022604

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We provide several general upper bounds on the rate of a key secure against a quantum adversary in the device-independent conference key agreement (DI-CKA) scenario. They include bounds by reduced entanglement measures and those based on multipartite secrecy monotones such as a multipartite squashed entanglement-based measure, which we refer to as reduced c-squashed entanglement. We compare the latter bound with the known lower bound for the protocol of conference key distillation based on the parity Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt game. We also show that the gap between the DI-CKA rate and the device-dependent rate is inherited from the bipartite gap between device-independent and device-dependent key rates, giving examples that exhibit the strict gap.
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Device-independent conference key agreement (DI-CKA) enables N>2N > 2N>2 distant parties to establish a common secret key without detailed characterization of the source or measurement devices. Many existing protocols rely on full-body Bell correlators, whose measurement can be demanding for a large number of parties. Here, we show that two-body correlators alone suffice for DI-CKA using balanced Dicke states for every even N≥4N \geq 4N≥4. We construct two-body Bell inequalities and derive a tight analytical lower bound on the conditional von Neumann entropy by comparing their Bell operators with those of asymmetric Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequalities. In the ideal setting, certified key rates can approach 1−h[(N−2)/(4(N−1))]1-h[(N-2)/(4(N-1))]1−h[(N−2)/(4(N−1))], where hhh is the binary entropy function. This rate remains bounded away from zero as N→∞N \rightarrow \inftyN→∞, tending to 1−h(1/4)≈0.1891-h(1/4) \approx 0.1891−h(1/4)≈0.189 bits per key-generation round. We show that the honest implementation of our protocol is invariant under collective phase noise. Moreover, a complementary full-body Bell construction certifies positive conference-key rates from correlations arbitrarily close to the local set.
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