Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2010-06-02
Physics
Quantum Physics
12 pages, RevTex, substantially revised version of e-print arXive:1002.2410
Scientific paper
The discovery of quantum key distribution by Bennett and Brassard (BB84) bases on the fundamental quantum feature: incompatibility of measurements of quantum non-commuting observables. In 1991 Ekert showed that cryptographic key can be generated at a distance with help of entangled (correlated) quantum particles. Recently Barrett, Hardy and Kent showed that the non-locality used by Ekert is itself a good resource of cryptographic key even beyond quantum mechanics. Their result paved the way to new generation of quantum cryptographic protocols - secure even if the devices are built by the very eavesdropper. However, there is a question, which is fundamental from both practical and philosophical point of view: does Nature offer security on operational level based on the original concept behind quantum cryptography - that information gain about one observable must cause disturbance to another, incompatible one? Here we resolve this problem by using another striking feature of quantum world - contextuality. It is a strong version of incompatibility manifested in the famous Kochen-Specker paradox. The crucial concept is the use of a new class of families of bipartite probability distributions . We show that if two persons share systems which locally exhibit the Kochen-Specker paradox and, in addition, exhibit perfect correlations, then they can extract secure key, even if they do not trust the quantum devices. This is the first operational protocol that directly implements the fundamental feature of Nature: the information gain vs. disturbance trade-off. For sake of proof we exhibit a new Bell's inequality which is interesting in itself. The security is proved not by exploiting strong violation of the inequality by quantum mechanics (as one usually proceeds), but rather by arguing, that quantum mechanics cannot violate it too much.
Bourennane Mohamed
Horodecki Karol
Horodecki Michal
Horodecki Pawel
Horodecki Ryszard
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