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View SchemaA New Protocol and Lower Bounds for Quantum Coin Flipping
| Authors | Andris Ambainis |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0204022 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0204022 |
| Journal | Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 68(2): 398-416, 2004. |
Abstract
We present a new protocol and two lower bounds for quantum coin flipping. In our protocol, no dishonest party can achieve one outcome with probability more than 0.75. Then, we show that our protocol is optimal for a certain type of quantum protocols. For arbitrary quantum protocols, we show that if a protocol achieves a bias of at most $\epsilon$, it must use at least $\Omega(\log \log \frac{1}{\epsilon})$ rounds of communication. This implies that the parallel repetition fails for quantum coin flipping. (The bias of a protocol cannot be arbitrarily decreased by running several copies of it in parallel.)
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