Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2009-12-30
Physics
Quantum Physics
28 pages (18 pages of body); new in v2: extract more min-entropy, use weakly random seed
Scientific paper
Randomness extraction involves the processing of purely classical information and is therefore usually studied in the framework of classical probability theory. However, such a classical treatment is generally too restrictive for applications, where side information about the values taken by classical random variables may be represented by the state of a quantum system. This is particularly relevant in the context of cryptography, where an adversary may make use of quantum devices. Here, we show that the well known construction paradigm for extractors proposed by Trevisan is sound in the presence of quantum side information. We exploit the modularity of this paradigm to give several concrete extractor constructions, which, e.g, extract all the conditional (smooth) min-entropy of the source using a seed of length poly-logarithmic in the input, or only require the seed to be weakly random.
De Anindya
Portmann Christopher
Renner Renato
Vidick Thomas
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