Published February 21, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Randomness Certification from Multipartite Quantum Steering for Arbitrary Dimensional Systems

  • 1. State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 2. Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
  • 3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
  • 4. Department of Physics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
  • 5. Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät, Universität Siegen, Walter-Flex-Straße 3, 57068 Siegen, Germany
  • 6. Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Nantong 226010, Jiangsu, China
  • 7. Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China

Description

Entanglement in bipartite systems has been applied to generate secure random numbers, which are playing an important role in cryptography or scientific numerical simulations. Here, we propose to use multipartite entanglement distributed between trusted and untrusted parties for generating randomness of arbitrary dimensional systems. We show that the distributed structure of several parties leads to additional protection against possible attacks by an eavesdropper, resulting in more secure randomness generated than in the corresponding bipartite scenario. Especially, randomness can be certified in the group of untrusted parties, even when there is no randomness in either of them individually. We prove that the necessary and sufficient resource for quantum randomness in this scenario is multipartite quantum steering when each untrusted party has a choice between only two measurements. However, the sufficiency no longer holds with more measurement settings. Finally, we apply our analysis to some experimentally realized states and show that more randomness can be extracted compared with the existing analysis.

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.080201;
arXiv
arXiv:2307.02061;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100001809; 10.13039/501100007129; 10.13039/501100001659; 10.13039/501100010007; 10.13039/100010663; 10.13039/501100002347;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
132
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
8 pgs.
ISSN
0031-9007