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Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Arguments for QMA, with preprocessing

Authors:
Andrea W. Coladangelo , Caltech
Thomas G. Vidick , Caltech
Tina Zhang , Caltech
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-56877-1_28 (login may be required)
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Conference: CRYPTO 2020
Abstract: We initiate the study of non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) arguments for languages in QMA. Our first main result is the following: if Learning With Errors (LWE) is hard for quantum computers, then any language in QMA has an NIZK argument with preprocessing. The preprocessing in our argument system consists of (i) the generation of a CRS and (ii) a single (instance-independent) quantum message from verifier to prover. The instance-dependent phase of our argument system involves only a single classical message from prover to verifier. Importantly, verification in our protocol is entirely classical, and the verifier needs not have quantum memory; its only quantum actions are in the preprocessing phase. Our second contribution is to extend the notion of a classical proof of knowledge to the quantum setting. We introduce the notions of arguments and proofs of quantum knowledge (AoQK/PoQK), and we show that our non-interactive argument system satisfies the definition of an AoQK. In particular, we explicitly construct an extractor which can recover a quantum witness from any prover which is successful in our protocol. Finally, we show that any language in QMA has an (interactive) proof of quantum knowledge.
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@inproceedings{crypto-2020-30534,
  title={Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Arguments for QMA, with preprocessing},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-030-56877-1_28},
  author={Andrea W. Coladangelo and Thomas G. Vidick and Tina Zhang},
  year=2020
}