Localized Closed Timelike Curves Can Perfectly Distinguish Quantum States
Abstract
We show that qubits traveling along closed timelike curves are a resource that a party can exploit to distinguish perfectly any set of quantum states. As a result, an adversary with access to closed timelike curves can break any prepare-and-measure quantum key distribution protocol. Our result also implies that a party with access to closed timelike curves can violate the Holevo bound.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- May 2009
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0811.1209
- Bibcode:
- 2009PhRvL.102u0402B
- Keywords:
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- 03.65.Wj;
- 03.67.Dd;
- 03.67.Hk;
- 04.20.Gz;
- State reconstruction quantum tomography;
- Quantum cryptography;
- Quantum communication;
- Spacetime topology causal structure spinor structure;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 4.1 pages, 2 figures