Multipartite Intrinsic Non-Locality and Device-Independent Conference Key Agreement

TL;DR

This paper introduces multipartite intrinsic non-locality as a new resource measure for device-independent conference key agreement, proving its key properties and demonstrating its usefulness in bounding secret key rates.

Contribution

It defines and proves properties of multipartite intrinsic non-locality, including additivity and convexity, and establishes it as an upper bound on secret key rates in DI conference key agreement.

Findings

Multipartite intrinsic non-locality is additive, convex, and monotone.

It provides an upper bound on secret key rates in DI scenarios.

Upper bounds are calculated for recent experimental DI quantum key distribution implementations.

Abstract

In this work, we introduce multipartite intrinsic non-locality as a method for quantifying resources in the multipartite scenario of device-independent (DI) conference key agreement. We prove that multipartite intrinsic non-locality is additive, convex, and monotone under a class of free operations called local operations and common randomness. As one of our technical contributions, we establish a chain rule for two variants of multipartite mutual information, which we then use to prove that multipartite intrinsic non-locality is additive. This chain rule may be of independent interest in other contexts. All of these properties of multipartite intrinsic non-locality are helpful in establishing the main result of our paper: multipartite intrinsic non-locality is an upper bound on secret key rate in the general multipartite scenario of DI conference key agreement. We discuss various examples of DI conference key protocols and compare our upper bounds for these protocols with known lower bounds. Finally, we calculate upper bounds on recent experimental realizations of DI quantum key distribution.