Quantum randomness expansion : upper and lower bounds
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Author(s)
Yuen, Henry, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor(s)
Dana Moshkovitz.
Alternative Title
Upper and lower bounds for quantum randomness expansion
Date Issued
2013
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
A recent sequence of works, initially motivated by the study of the nonlocal properties of entanglement, demonstrate that a source of information-theoretically certified randomness can be constructed based only on two simple assumptions: the prior existence of a short random seed and the ability to ensure that two black-box devices do not communicate (i.e. are non-signaling). We call protocols achieving such certified amplification of a short random seed randomness amplifiers. We introduce a simple framework in which we initiate the systematic study of the possibilities and limitations of randomness amplifiers. Our main results include a new, improved analysis of a robust randomness amplifier with exponential expansion, as well as the first upper bounds on the maximum expansion achievable by a broad class of randomness amplifiers. In particular, we show that non-adaptive randomness amplifiers that are robust to noise cannot achieve more than doubly exponential expansion. We show that a wide class of protocols based on the use of the CHSH game can only lead to (singly) exponential expansion if adversarial devices are allowed the full power of non-signaling strategies. Our upper bound results apply to all known non-adaptive randomness amplifier constructions to date. Finally, we demonstrate, for all positive integers k, a protocol involving 2k non-signaling black-box quantum devices that achieves an amount of expansion that is a tower of exponentials of height k. This hints at the intriguing possibility of infinite randomness expansion.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2013.
Title as it appears in Degrees awarded booklet, September 2013: Upper and lower bounds for quantum randomness expansion. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-64).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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