The concept of quantum-secure readout of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) has recently been realized experimentally in an optical PUF system. We analyze the security of this system under the strongest type of classical attack: the challenge estimation attack. The adversary performs a measurement on the challenge quantum state in order to learn as much about it as he can. Using this knowledg...

• m, the length (in bits) of the private key to be generated. • ǫ, the maximum threshold value for the error rate during the quantum transmission (ǫ < 1/4). • τ , a security constant such that ǫ 1−ǫ < ǫ 1−ǫ + τ < 1. • the security parameter r. It must be large enough so that Alice and Bob can find a binary matrix K of size m × r such that any linear combination of rows of K that contains at lea...

The first part of this paper presents two efficient cryptographic protocols, based on quantum entanglement, for secure exchange of secret keys. While the first protocol requires storage of entangled qubits, the second protocol has no storage requirements and presents a probabilistic model. We show that there is a tradeoff between security against eavesdropping and the efficiency of the protocol...

Recently, a widely-used computation expression for quantum Fisher information was shown to be discontinuous at the parameter points where rank of parametric density operator changes. The Cram\'er-Rao bound can violated on such singular if one uses this information. We point out that discontinuity is accompanied with unboundedness symmetric logarithmic derivation operators, based which formally ...

In the Eisert protocol for 2×2 quantum games [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3077], a number of authors have investigated the features arising from making the strategic space a two-parameter subset of single qubit unitary operators. We argue that the new Nash equilibria and the classical-quantum transitions that occur are simply an artifact of the particular strategy space chosen. By choosing a different...

We construct a family of two parameter quantum grou-\ps‎ ‎$U_{r,s}(mathfrak{g})$ associated with a generalized Kac-Moody‎ ‎algebra corresponding to symmetrizable admissible Borcherds Cartan‎ ‎matrix‎. ‎We also construct the $textbf{A}$-form $U_{textbf{A}}$ and‎ ‎the classical limit of $U_{r,s}(mathfrak{g})$‎. ‎Furthermore‎, ‎we‎ ‎display the equitable presentation for a subalgebra‎ ‎$U_{r...

The behavior of linear and nonlinear dust acoustic waves (DAWs) in an unmagnetized plasma including inertialess electrons and positrons, ions, and mobile positive/negative dust grains are studied. Reductive perturbation method is employed for small and finite amplitude DAWs. To investigate the solitary waves, the Korteweg&ndash;de Vries (KdV) equation is derived and the solution is presented. B...

We study boundary quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations associated with quantum affine symmetry Uq(ŝln). We consider the case where the deformation parameter q satisfies |q| = 1, and the difference parameter λ > 0. We give an integral representation of boundary quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations. Our approach is based on the free field realizations of the vertex operators and the bound...