Loss-Tolerant Quantum Position Verification for Metropolitan Area Networks

arXiv:2609.23234 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-19 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-19

Updated: 2026-09-19

Terminology

• Verifier — 223× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 41× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entanglement — 32× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Calibration — 22× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Liquid Crystal — 6× in this paper
• Polarizing Beam Splitter — 6× in this paper
• Region of Interest — 4× in this paper
• Half-Wave Plate — 3× in this paper
• Hollow-Core Fibers — 3× in this paper
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Objective Function — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quarter-Wave Plate — 2× in this paper
• Ultra-Low Loss — 2× in this paper
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entanglement Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Post-Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Radio Frequency — 1× in this paper
• Resource Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Semidefinite Program (SDP) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Theoretical Guarantees — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Quantum Position Verification with Remote Untrusted Devices
• Efficient Multi-basis Quantum Position Verification Secure against Generalized Adversaries
• Quantum position verification in one shot: parallel repetition of the $f$-BB84 and $f$-routing protocols
• The Security of Practical Quantum Key Distribution
• QICS: Quantum Information Conic Solver
• Correlations and randomness generation based on energy constraints

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