Ramij Rahaman

University of Allahabad · Department of Mathematics

The quantum state discrimination primitive becomes highly nontrivial in the limited measurement setting and leads to different classes of impossibility, viz., indistinguishability, unmarkability, irreducibility, etc. These phenomena, often referred to as another nonlocal aspect of quantum theory, have utmost importance in the domain of data hiding,...

The structure of quantum theory assures the discrimination of any possible orthogonal set of states. However, the scenario becomes highly nontrivial in the limited measurement setting and leads to different classes of impossibility, viz., indistinguishability, unmarkability, irreducibility etc. These phenomena, often referred to as other nonlocal a...

Entanglement in multipartite quantum systems is much more elusive than its bipartite counterpart. In recent past the usefulness of multipartite entangled states in several information theoretic tasks have been demonstrated. Being a resource, the detection of multipartite entanglement is an imperative necessity. Among the different classes of multip...

The (im)possibility of local distinguishability of orthogonal multipartite quantum states still remains an intriguing question. Beyond C3⊗C3, the problem remains unsolved even for maximally entangled states (MESs). So far, the only known condition for the local distinguishability of states is the well-known orthogonality preservation (OP). Using an...

We provide an analysis of a new family of device independent quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols with several novel features: (a) The bits used for the secret key do not come from the results of the measurements on an entangled state but from the choices of settings; (b) Instead of a single security parameter (a violation of some Bell inequali...

Genuine multipartite nonlocality is a salient feature of quantum systems, empowering the security of multi-party device independent cryptographic protocols. Given a correlation, characterizing and detecting genuineness have been subjected to recent studies. In this regard, we propose a Hardy-type argument which is able to detect genuine $n$-way non...

Hardy's is one of the simplest arguments concerning nonlocality. Recently, Chen et al. [Phys. Rev. A 88, 062116 (2013)PLRAAN1050-294710.1103/PhysRevA.88.062116] have proposed a more generalized Hardy-like argument and have shown that the probability of success increases with the local system's dimension. Here we study the same in a minimally constr...

Anonymous Veto (AV) and Dining cryptographers (DC) are two basic primitives for the cryptographic problems that can hide the identity of the sender(s) of classical information. They can be achieved by classical methods and the security is based on computational hardness or requires pairwise shared private keys. In this regard, we present a secure q...

We have generalised the concept of graph states to what we have called mixed graph states, which we define in terms of mixed graphs, that is graphs with both directed and undirected edges, as the density matrix stabilized by the associated stabilizer matrix defined by the mixed graph. We can interpret this matrix as a quantum object by making it pa...

We develop a very simple necessary condition for the perfect distinguishability of any set of maximally entangled states in a $\mathbb{C}^d \otimes \mathbb{C}^d$ system. This condition places constraints on the starting measurement of the LOCC protocol, and, by doing so, reduces the the complexity of the distinguishability problem, particularly for...

Quantum mechanics allows systems to be entangled with each other, which results in stronger than classical correlations. Many methods of identifying entanglement have been proposed over years, most of which are based on violating some statistical inequalities. In this work we extend the idea formed by Hardy, in which entanglement is not identified...

We present a device-independent quantum scheme for the {\em Byzantine Generals} problem. The protocol is for three parties. Party $C$ is to send two identical one bit messages to parties $A$ and $B$. The receivers $A$ and $B$ may exchange two one bit messages informing the other party on the message received from $C$. A bit flipping error in one of...

In this paper we analyze the (im)possibility of the exact distinguishability of orthogonal multipartite entangled states under {\em restricted local operation and classical communication}. Based on this local distinguishability analysis we propose a new scheme for quantum secret sharing (QSS). Our QSS scheme is quite general and cost efficient comp...

We present a generalized Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) theorem, which involves more than two local measurement settings for some parties, and cannot be reduced to one with less settings. Our results hold for an odd number of parties. We use a set of observables, which are incompatible but share a common eigenstate, here a GHZ state. Such observ...

In this work, we propose device independent true random numbers generation protocols based on non-inequality paradoxes such as Hardy's and Cabello's non-locality argument. The efficiency of generating randomness in our protocols are far better than any other proposed protocols certified by CHSH inequality or other non-locality test involving inequa...

We present a secure device-independent quantum key distribution scheme based on Hardy's paradox. It has several novel, in comparison with protocols based on Bell inequalities, features: (a) The bits used for secret key do not come from the results of the measurements on an entangled state but from the choices of settings which are harder for an eav...

The Anonymous Veto (or dining cryptographers) problem, which allows a voting party in a jury to anonymously veto a decision, which is to be approved unanimously, has a classical solution in form of a protocol, security of which is guaranteed only by computational hardness. We present a generalization to a multi qu$D$it case of Hardy's argument agai...

The set of multiparty correlations that respect all bi-partite principles has been conjectured to be same as the set of time-ordered-bi-local correlations. Based on this conjuncture we find the maximum value of success probability of tri-partite Hardy's correlation respecting all bi-partite physical principles. Unlike in quantum mechanics, the no-s...

No cloning theorem is a very fundamental issue in quantum mechanics. But the issue is much more involved if we consider quantum state shared among two or more than two parties and allow only local operation and classical communication. In the context of the fact that no known bipartite entangled state can be cloned by local operation and classical...

This paper demonstrates the quantization of a spatial Cournot duopoly model with product choice, a two stage game focusing on non-cooperation in locations and quantities. With quantization, the players can access a continuous set of strategies, using continuous variable quantum mechanical approach. The presence of quantum entanglement in the initia...

A Comment on the Letter by Ming Li and Shao-Ming Fei, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 240502 (2010)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.104.240502.

Study of non-local correlations in terms of Hardy's argument has been quite popular in quantum mechanics. Hardy's non-locality argument depends on some kind of asymmetry, but a two-qubit maximally entangled state, being symmetric, does not exhibit this kind of non-locality. Here we ask the following question: can this feature be explained by some p...

In this Letter we analyze the (im)possibility of the exact cloning of orthogonal three-qubit CAT states under local operation and classical communication(LOCC) with the help of a restricted entangled state. We also classify the three-qubit CAT states that can(not) be cloned under LOCC restrictions and extend the results to the n-qubit case.

The "entanglement cost" of a bipartite measurement is the amount of shared entanglement two participants need to use up in order to carry out the given measurement by means of local operations and classical communication. Here we numerically investigate the entanglement cost of generic orthogonal measurements on two qubits. Our results strongly sug...

Gisin’s theorem assures that for any pure bipartite entangled state, there is violation of the inequality of Bell and of Clauser, Horne, Shimony, and Holt, revealing its contradiction with local realistic model. Whether a similar result holds for three-qubit pure entangled states remained unresolved. We show analytically that all three-qubit pure e...

Recently, the principle of nonviolation of information causality [ Nature 461 1101 (2009)] has been proposed as one of the foundational properties of nature. We explore the Hardy’s nonlocality theorem for two-qubit systems, in the context of generalized probability theory, restricted by the principle of nonviolation of information causality. Applyi...

Recently, Li et al. (Int. J. Theor. Phys. 48:2777, 2009) derived a necessary and sufficient condition for LOCC cloning of a set of bipartite orthogonal partially but equally entangled state. We demonstrates that, the result is based on a wrong observation regarding a set of non-maximally entangled states with equal entanglement. We also provide a s...

The (im) possibility of exact cloning of orthogonal but equally entangled quantum states under local operations and classical communication is discussed. The amount of entanglement necessary in blank copy is obtained for various cases.

Berry phases and quantum fidelities for interacting spins have attracted considerable attention, in particular in relation to entanglement properties of spin systems and quantum phase transitions. These efforts mainly focus either on spin pairs or the thermodynamic infinite spin limit, while studies of the multipartite case of a finite number of sp...

Hardy's non-locality theorem for multiple two-level systems is explored in the context of generalized nonlocal theory. We find nonlocal but non-signaling probabilities, providing Hardy's nonlocal argument, which are higher than those in Quantum Mechanics. Maximum probability of success of Hardy's argument is obtained for three two-level systems in...

We discuss the (im)possibility of the exact cloning of orthogonal but genuinely entangled three qubit states aided with entangled ancilla under local operation and classical communication. Whereas any two orthogonal Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states taken from the canonical GHZ basis can be cloned with the help of a known GHZ state, surprisi...

We discuss the exact cloning of orthogonal but entangled qubits under local operations and classical communication. The amount of entanglement necessary in blank copy is obtained for various cases. Surprisingly this amount is more than 1 ebit for certain set of two nonmaximal but equally entangled states of two qubits system. To clone any three two...

Tsirelson showed that $2\sqrt{2}$ is the maximum value that CHSH expression can take for quantum-correlations [B. S.Tsirelson, Lett. Math. Phys, 4 (1980) 93]. This bound simply follows from the algebra of observables. Recently by exploiting the physical structure of quantum mechanics like unitarity and linearity, Buhrman and Massar [H. Buhrman and...

Gisin's theorem assures that for any pure bipartite entangled state, there is violation of Bell-CHSH inequality revealing its contradiction with local realistic model. Whether, similar result holds for three-qubit pure entangled states, remained unresolved. We show analytically that all three-qubit pure entangled states violate a Bell-type inequali...

No signalling condition by itself does not answer the question why quantum-mechanics violates Bell's inequality by not more than 2 √ 2. Recently Buhrman and Massar [1] have given the answer by using unitarity and linearity of quantum-mechanics. We provide a simple answer to the same with the help of realistic joint measurement in quantum mechanics...