Journal of High Energy Physics (Aug 2024)

Security of quantum position-verification limits Hamiltonian simulation via holography

  • Harriet Apel,
  • Toby Cubitt,
  • Patrick Hayden,
  • Tamara Kohler,
  • David Pérez-García

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2024)152
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2024, no. 8
pp. 1 – 40

Abstract

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Abstract We investigate the link between quantum position-verification (QPV) and holography established in [1] using holographic quantum error correcting codes as toy models. By inserting the “temporal” scaling of the AdS metric by hand via the bulk Hamiltonian interaction strength, we recover a toy model with consistent causality structure. This leads to an interesting implication between two topics in quantum information: if position-based verification is secure against attacks with small entanglement then there are new fundamental lower bounds for resources required for one Hamiltonian to simulate another.

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