Private Quantum Channels
Speaker:
Alain Tapp, Univerisité de Montréal
Date and Time:
Tuesday, October 3, 2006 - 9:30am to 10:20am
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
I will investigate how a classical private key can be used by two players, connected by an insecure one-way quantum channel, to perform private communication of quantum information. In particular we show that in order to transmit n qubits privately, 2n bits of shared private key are necessary and sufficient. This result may be viewed as the quantum analogue of the classical one-time pad encryption scheme. From the point of view of the eavesdropper, this encryption process can be seen as a randomization of the original state. We thus also obtain strict bounds on the amount of entropy necessary for randomizing n qubits.