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Security of communication based on quantum mechanics

2015/18/E/ST2/00327

Keywords:

quantum cryptography non-locality quantum entanglement

Descriptors:

  • ST2_15: Metrology and measurement methods

Panel:

ST2 - Fundamental constituents of matter: particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas and optical physics

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Gdański, Wydział Matematyki, Fizyki i Informatyki

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Karol Horodecki 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 8

Call: SONATA BIS 5 - announced on 2015-06-15

Amount awarded: 1 599 600 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2016-04-12

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2022-04-11

Project duration:: 72 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (16)
  1. Amplifying the randomness of weak sources correlated with devices
    Authors:
    Hanna Wojewódka, Fernando G.S.L. Brandao, Andrzej Grudka, Karol Horodecki, Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, Maciej Stankiewicz
    Academic press:
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (rok: 2017, tom: 63, strony: 7592-7611), Wydawca: IEEE
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1109/TIT.2017.2738010 - link to the publication
  2. No-go theorem for device-independent security in relativistic causal theories
    Authors:
    ] Roberto Salazar, Michał Kamoń, Dardo Goyeneche, Karol Horodecki, Debashis Saha, Ravishankar Ramanathan, Paweł Horodecki
    Academic press:
    Physical Review Research (rok: 2021, tom: 3, strony: 33146), Wydawca: APS physics
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033146 - link to the publication
  3. Semi-device-independent quantum money
    Authors:
    Karol Horodecki (1,2,4); Maciej Stankiewicz (3)
    Academic press:
    New Jurnal of Physics (rok: 2020, tom: 22, strony: 23007), Wydawca: IOP Publishing Ltd
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/1367-2630/ab6872 - link to the publication
  4. Upper bounds on the leakage of private data and operational approach to markovianity
    Authors:
    Karol Horodecki, Michał Studziński, Ryszard P. Kostecki, Omer Sakarya and Dong Yang
    Academic press:
    Physical Review A (rok: 2021, tom: 104, strony: 52422), Wydawca: APS physics
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevA.104.052422 - link to the publication
  5. Universal structure of objective states in all fundamental causal theories"
    Authors:
    Carlo M. Scandolo, Roberto Salazar, Jarosław K. Korbicz, Paweł Horodeck
    Academic press:
    Physical Review Research (rok: 2021, tom: 3, strony: 33148), Wydawca: APS physics
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033148 - link to the publication
  6. Distributed Private Randomness Distillation
    Authors:
    Yang, Dong[ 1,2 ] ; Horodecki, Karol)[ 3,4 ] ; Winter, Andreas[ 5,6 ]
    Academic press:
    PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (rok: 2019, tom: 123, strony: 170501), Wydawca: APS physics
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.170501 - link to the publication
  7. Random access codes and non-local resources
    Authors:
    Anubhav Chaturvedi, Marcin Pawłowski, Karol Horodecki
    Academic press:
    Physical Review A (rok: 2017, tom: 96, strony: 22125), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevA.96.022125 - link to the publication
  8. Upper bounds on device-independent quantum key distribution"
    Authors:
    Matthias Christandl, Roberto Ferrara and Karol Horodecki
    Academic press:
    Physical Review Letters (rok: 2021, tom: 126, strony: 160501), Wydawca: APS physics
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.160501 - link to the publication
  9. Limitations for private randomness repeaters
    Authors:
    Karol Horodecki, Ryszard P. Kostecki, Roberto Salazar, and Michał Studziński
    Academic press:
    Phys. Rev. A (rok: 2020, tom: 102, strony: 12615), Wydawca: APS physics
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevA.102.012615 - link to the publication
  10. On distilling secure key from reducible private states and (non) existence of entangled key-undistillable states
    Authors:
    Karol Horodecki, Piotr Ćwikliński, Adam Rutkowski, Michał Studziński
    Academic press:
    New Journal of Physics (rok: 2018, tom: 20, strony: 83021), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/1367-2630/aad75a - link to the publication
  11. Private Weakly-Random Sequences from Human Heart Rate for Quantum Amplification"
    Authors:
    Maciej Stankiewicz, Karol Horodecki, Omer Sakarya and Danuta Makowiec
    Academic press:
    Entropy (rok: 2021, tom: 23(9), strony: 1182), Wydawca: MDPI AG
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/e23091182 - link to the publication
  12. Gadget structures in proofs of the Kochen-Specker theorem
    Authors:
    Ravishankar Ramanathan1, Monika Rosicka2, Karol Horodecki3,4, Stefano Pironio5, Michał Horodecki2,6, and Paweł Horodecki6,7
    Academic press:
    Quantum (rok: 2020, tom: 4, strony: 308), Wydawca: Verein zur Förderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.22331/q-2020-08-14-308 - link to the publication
  13. Universal limitations on quantum key distribution over a network"
    Authors:
    Siddhartha Das, Stefan Bäuml, Marek Winczewski, Karol Horodecki
    Academic press:
    Physical Review X (rok: 2021, tom: 11, strony: 41016), Wydawca: APS physics
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevX.11.041016 - link to the publication
  14. Hybrid quantum network design against unauthorized secret-key generation, and its memory cost
    Authors:
    Omer Sakarya1, Marek Winczewski2,3, Adam Rutkowski4, and Karol Horodecki1,3
    Academic press:
    Phys. Rev. Research (rok: 2020, tom: 2, strony: 43022), Wydawca: APS physics
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043022 - link to the publication
  15. Fundamental limitations on device-independent quantum conference key agreement"
    Authors:
    Karol Horodecki, Marek Winczewski and Siddhartha Das
    Academic press:
    Physical Review A (rok: 2022, tom: 105, strony: 22604), Wydawca: APS physics
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevA.105.022604 - link to the publication
  16. "Multiple-shot and unambiguous discrimination of von Neumann measurements"
    Authors:
    Zbigniew Puchała, Łukasz Pawela, Aleksandra Krawiec, Ryszard Kukulski, Michał Oszmaniec
    Academic press:
    Quantum (rok: 2021, tom: 5, strony: 425), Wydawca: European Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.22331/q-2021-04-06-425 - link to the publication