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Publications (124)

quant-ph2003

Quantum Bit String Commitment

Adrian Kent

A bit string commitment protocol securely commits classical bits in such a way that the recipient can extract only bits of information about the string. Classical reasoni…

physics.pop-ph2018

Dualities and Twins: Reflections on Hapgood

Adrian Kent

These programme notes were written for a production of "Hapgood" at the Hampstead Theatre, London in December 2015. I thank Sir Tom Stoppard for helpful suggestions.

quant-ph2012

Unconditionally secure device-independent quantum key distribution with only two devices

Jonathan Barrett, Roger Colbeck, Adrian Kent

Device-independent quantum key distribution is the task of using uncharacterized quantum devices to establish a shared key between two users. If a protocol is secure regardless of…

quant-ph2024

Time and distance constraints for mass and charge interferometry

Adrian Kent

We reanalyse and extend constraints on mass and charge interferometry identified by Mari et al. (2016). We show that their constraint on the time required for coherent interference…

quant-ph2014

Secure and Robust Transmission and Verification of Unknown Quantum States in Minkowski Space

Adrian Kent, Serge Massar, Jonathan Silman

An important class of cryptographic applications of relativistic quantum information work as follows. B generates a random qudit and supplies it to A at point P. A is supposed to t…

quant-ph2020

Flexible quantum tokens in spacetime

Adrian Kent, Damián Pitalúa-García

S-money [Proc. R. Soc. A 475, 20190170 (2019)] schemes define virtual tokens designed for networks with relativistic or other trusted signalling constraints. The tokens allow near-…