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Urmila Mahadev
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6ranked-venue papers
4as first author
3since 2021 · last 2023
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Theory of computation · 5 · 4 first-author · 2 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Classical Homomorphic Encryption for Quantum Circuits
Urmila Mahadev |
SIAM J. Comput. | 1 |
| 2022 | Classical Verification of Quantum ComputationsabstractWe present the first protocol allowing a classical computer to interactively verify the result of an efficient quantum computation. We achieve this by constructing a measurement protocol, which enables a classical verifier to use a quantum prover as a trusted measurement device. The protocol forces the prover to behave as follows: the prover must construct an $n$ qubit state of his choice, measure each qubit in the Hadamard or standard basis as directed by the verifier, and report the measurement results to the verifier. The soundness of this protocol is enforced based on the assumption that the learning with errors problem is computationally intractable for efficient quantum machines. Urmila Mahadev |
SIAM J. Comput. | 1 |
| 2021 | A Cryptographic Test of Quantumness and Certifiable Randomness from a Single Quantum DeviceabstractWe consider a new model for the testing of untrusted quantum devices, consisting of a single polynomial time bounded quantum device interacting with a classical polynomial time verifier. In this model, we propose solutions to two tasks—a protocol for efficient classical verification that the untrusted device is “truly quantum” and a protocol for producing certifiable randomness from a single untrusted quantum device. Our solution relies on the existence of a new cryptographic primitive for constraining the power of an untrusted quantum device: post-quantum secure trapdoor claw-free functions that must satisfy an adaptive hardcore bit property. We show how to construct this primitive based on the hardness of the learning with errors (LWE) problem. Zvika Brakerski, Paul F. Christiano, Urmila Mahadev, Umesh V. Vazirani, Thomas Vidick |
J. ACM | 3 |
| 2018 | A Cryptographic Test of Quantumness and Certifiable Randomness from a Single Quantum DeviceabstractWe give a protocol for producing certifiable randomness from a single untrusted quantum device that is polynomial-time bounded. The randomness is certified to be statistically close to uniform from the point of view of any computationally unbounded quantum adversary, that may share entanglement with the quantum device. The protocol relies on the existence of post-quantum secure trapdoor claw-free functions, and introduces a new primitive for constraining the power of an untrusted quantum device. We then show how to construct this primitive based on the hardness of the learning with errors (LWE) problem. The randomness protocol can also be used as the basis for an efficiently verifiable "quantum supremacy" proposal, thus answering an outstanding challenge in the field. Zvika Brakerski, Paul F. Christiano, Urmila Mahadev, Umesh V. Vazirani, Thomas Vidick |
FOCS | 3 |
| 2018 | Classical Verification of Quantum ComputationsabstractWe present the first protocol allowing a classical computer to interactively verify the result of an efficient quantum computation. We achieve this by constructing a measurement protocol, which enables a classical verifier to use a quantum prover as a trusted measurement device. The protocol forces the prover to behave as follows: the prover must construct an n qubit state of his choice, measure each qubit in the Hadamard or standard basis as directed by the verifier, and report the measurement results to the verifier. The soundness of this protocol is enforced based on the assumption that the learning with errors problem is computationally intractable for efficient quantum machines. Urmila Mahadev |
FOCS | 1 |
| 2018 | Classical Homomorphic Encryption for Quantum CircuitsabstractWe present the first leveled fully homomorphic encryption scheme for quantum circuits with classical keys. The scheme allows a classical client to blindly delegate a quantum computation to a quantum server: an honest server is able to run the computation while a malicious server is unable to learn any information about the computation. We show that it is possible to construct such a scheme directly from a quantum secure classical homomorphic encryption scheme with certain properties. Finally, we show that a classical homomorphic encryption scheme with the required properties can be constructed from the learning with errors problem. Urmila Mahadev |
FOCS | 1 |