Stephanie Wehner - Research

Research


Research

Quantum Information

For the most up to date information, check out my author page on the arxiv.
For my recent article with Jonathan Oppenheim in Science, see press release, or some of the various popular science news.
  1. Multipartite entanglement verification resistant against dishonest parties arXiv:1112.5064
    with Anna Pappa, Andre Chailloux, Eleni Diamanti and Iordanis Kerenidis
  2. When does a quantum mechanical system depend on the initial conditions of the system or the environment? arXiv:1111.3080
    with Adrian Hutter
  3. Quantum to classical randomness extractors arXiv:1111.2026
    with Mario Berta and Omar Fawzi
  4. Almost all states are pretty lazy, arXiv:1109.0602
    with Adrian Hutter
    To appear in Physical Review Letters.
  5. Entanglement cost of quantum channels, with Mario Berta, Matthias Christandl and Fernando Brandao
    arXiv:1108.5357
  6. A time-dependent Tsirelson's bound from limits on the rate of information gain in quantum systems, arXiv:1105.2268
    with Andrew C. Doherty
    In New Journal of Physics, 13, 073033 (2011)
  7. Does ignorance of the whole imply ignorance of the parts? Large violations of non-contextuality in quantum theory., arXiv:1011.6448
    with Thomas Vidick
    In Physical Review Letters 107, 030402 (2011)
  8. More non-locality with less entanglement arXiv:1011.5206
    with Thomas Vidick
    In Physical Review A, 83, 052310 (2011)
  9. Achieving the physical limits of the bounded-storage model, arXiv:1009.1596
    with Prabha Mandayam
    In Physical Review A, 83, 022329 (2011)
  10. Long distance two-party quantum cryptography made simple, arXiv:1008.0253
    with Iordanis Kerenidis
  11. A transform of complementary aspects with applications to entropic uncertainty relations, arXiv:1004.5086
    with Prabha Mandayam and Niranjan Balachandran
    In Journal of Mathematical Physics, 51, 082201 (2010)
  12. The uncertainty principle determines the non-locality of quantum mechanics, Science
    with Jonathan Oppenheim.
    In Science, vol. 330, no 7006, pp. 1072-1074.
  13. On the use of post-measurement information in state discrimination, arXiv:1003.0716
    with Deepthi Gopal
    In Physical Review A, 82, 022326 (2010)
  14. How to implement two-party protocols in the noisy-storage model, arXiv:0911.2302
    with Marcos Curty, Hoi-Kwong Lo, and Christian Schaffner
    In Physical Review A, 81, 052336 (2010) under the title 'Implementation of two-party protocols in the noisy-storage model'.
  15. Local quantum measurement and relativity imply quantum correlations, arXiv:0910.3952
    with Howard Barnum, Salman Beigi, Sergio Boixo, and Matthew Elliott
    In Physical Review Letters, 104, 140401 (2010)
  16. Entropy in general physical theories, arXiv:0909.4801
    with Anthony J. Short
    In New Journal of Physics, 12, 033023 (2010)
  17. Entropic uncertainty relations - A survey, arXiv:0907.3704
    with Andreas Winter
    In New Journal of Physics - Special Issue on Quantum Information and Many-Body Theory, 12, 025009 (2010)
  18. Unconditional security from noisy quantum storage, arXiv:0906.1030
    with Robert Koenig and Juerg Wullschleger
  19. A strong converse for classical channel coding using entangled inputs, arXiv:0903.2838
    with Robert Koenig
    In Physical Review Letters, 103, 070504 (2009)
  20. Relaxed uncertainty relations and information processing, arXiv:0811.3771
    with Greg Ver Steeg
    In Quantum Information and Computation, 9 (9&10), 0801-0832, 2009
  21. Distinguishability of quantum states under restricted families of measurements with an application to quantum data hiding, arXiv:0810.2327
    with William Matthews and Andreas Winter
    In Communications in Mathematical Physics, 813, 3, 2009
  22. A lower bound on the dimension of a quantum system given measured data, arXiv:0808.3960
    with Matthias Christandl and Andrew C. Doherty
    In Physical Review A, 78, 062112 (2008)
  23. Robust Cryptography in the Noisy-Quantum-Storage Model, arxiv:0807.1333
    with Christian Schaffner and Barbara Terhal
    In Quantum Information and Computation, 9 (11&12), 0963-0996, 2009
  24. The quantum moment problem and bounds on entangled multi-prover games, arxiv:0803.4373
    with Andrew C. Doherty, Yeong-Cherng Liang, and Ben Toner
    In Proceedings of CCC '08
  25. Cryptography from noisy storage, arxiv:0711.2895
    with Christian Schaffner and Barbara Terhal
    In Physical Review Letters, 100, 220502 (2008)
    Chosen by the EU Integrated Project Qubit Applications as the research highlight of the month, july 2008.
  26. Higher entropic uncertainty relations for anti-commuting observables, arxiv:0710.1185
    with Andreas Winter
    In Journal of Mathematical Physics, 49, 062105 (2008)
  27. Composable security in the bounded-quantum-storage model, arxiv:0709.0492
    with Juerg Wullschleger
    In Proceedings of ICALP '08
  28. A simple family of nonadditive quantum codes, quant-ph/0701065
    with John A. Smolin and Graeme Smith.
    In Physical Review Letters, 99, 130505 (2007)
  29. Security of Quantum Bit String Commitment depends on the information measure, quant-ph/0609237
    with Harry Buhrman, Matthias Christandl, Patrick Hayden, and Hoi-Kwong Lo.
    In Physical Review Letters, 97, 250501 (2006)
  30. State Discrimination with Post-Measurement Information , quant-ph/0608014
    with Manuel Ballester and Andreas Winter.
    In IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol 54, issue 9 (2008), pages 4183 - 4198
  31. Entropic uncertainty relations and locking: tight bounds for mutually unbiased bases, quant-ph/0606244
    with Manuel Ballester.
    In Physical Review A, 75, 022319 (2007)
    An earlier version appeared as a preprint under the title "Locking with three mutually unbiased bases".
  32. Tsirelson bounds for generalized CHSH inequalities, quant-ph/0510076
    In Physical Review A, 73, 022110 (2006)
  33. Entanglement in Interactive Proof Systems with Binary Answers, quant-ph/0508201
    In Proceedings of STACS 2006.
  34. Implications of Superstrong Nonlocality for Cryptography, quant-ph/0504133
    with Harry Buhrman, Matthias Christandl, Falk Unger, and Andreas Winter.
    In Proceedings of the Royal Society A, vol. 462 (2071), pages 1919-1932.
  35. Possibility, Impossibility and Cheat-Sensitivity of Quantum Bit String Commitments, quant-ph/0504078
    with Harry Buhrman, Matthias Christandl, Patrick Hayden, and Hoi-Kwong Lo.
    In Physical Review A, 78, 022316 (2008)
  36. Quantum Anonymous Transmissions, quant-ph/0409201
    with Matthias Christandl.
    In Proceedings of ASIACRYPT 2005.
  37. Improved Lower Bounds for Locally Decodable Codes and Private Information Retrieval, quant-ph/0403140
    with Ronald de Wolf.
    In Proceedings of ICALP 2005.

Other

Complete references can be found in a Bibtex file.
  1. Analyzing Worms and Network Traffic using Compression, cs.CR/0504045
    In Journal of Computer Security, Vol 15, Number 3, 303-320, 2007
    Also mentioned in Heise Security (c't magazine).

MSc Thesis

Quantum Computing and Privacy. (More info)

PhD Thesis

Cryptography in a Quantum World. (More info)