Elliptic curves in continuous-variable quantum systems

Razvan Barbulescu, Mugurel Barcau, Vicenţiu Pașol

Kunal Abhishek

Harashta Tatimma Larasati, Howon Kim

Clémence Chevignard, Pierre-Alain Fouque, André Schrottenloher

Maxwell Aifer, Evan Sheldon

Elliptic curves are planar curves which can be used to define an abelian group. The efficient computation of discrete logarithms over this group is a longstanding problem relevant to cryptography. It may be possible to efficiently compute these logarithms using a quantum computer, assuming that the group addition operation can be computed efficiently on a quantum device. Currently, however, thousands of logical qubits are required for elliptic curve group addition, putting this application out of reach for near-term quantum hardware. Here we give an algorithm for computing elliptic curve group addition using a single continuous-variable mode, based on weak measurements of a system with a cubic potential energy. This result could lead to improvements in the efficiency of elliptic curve discrete logarithms using a quantum device.

Giovanni Felder, Anke Schorr

We extend Sklyanin's method of separation of variables to quantum integrable models associated to elliptic curves. After reviewing the differential case, the elliptic Gaudin model studied by Enriquez, Feigin and Rubtsov, we consider the difference case and find a class of transfer matrices whose eigenvalue problem can be solved by separation of variables. These transfer matrices are associated to representations of the elliptic quantum group E , ( sl 2 ) by difference operators. One model of statistical mechanics to which this method applies is the interaction-round-a-face model with antiperiodic boundary conditions. The eigenvalues of the transfer matrix are given as solutions of a system of quadratic equations in a space of higher-order theta functions.