Multipartite Intrinsic Non-Locality and Device-Independent Conference Key Agreement

Abstract

In this work, we introduce multipartite intrinsic non-locality as a method for quantifying resources in the multipartite scenario of device-independent (DI) conference key agreement. We prove that multipartite intrinsic non-locality is additive, convex, and monotone under a class of free operations called local operations and common randomness. As one of our technical contributions, we establish a chain rule for two variants of multipartite mutual information, which we then use to prove that multipartite intrinsic non-locality is additive. This chain rule may be of independent interest in other contexts. All of these properties of multipartite intrinsic non-locality are helpful in establishing the main result of our paper: multipartite intrinsic non-locality is an upper bound on secret key rate in the general multipartite scenario of DI conference key agreement. We discuss various examples of DI conference key protocols and compare our upper bounds for these protocols with known lower bounds. Finally, we calculate upper bounds on recent experimental realizations of DI quantum key distribution.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jan 19, 2023
Source ID
10.22331/q-2023-01-19-898

Entities

People

  • Aby Philip
  • Eneet Kaur
  • Mark M. Wilde
  • Peter Bierhorst

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Cornell University
  • Louisiana State University
  • University of Arizona
  • University of New Orleans
  • University of Waterloo

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Regression Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Science - Quantum Key Distribution