Device-Independent Quantum Information Processing: A Simplified Analysis

Introduction.- Preliminaries: Basics and Notation.- Preliminaries: Device-independent Concepts.- Introduction to the Showcases.- Single-round Box.- Multi-round Box.- Working Under the IID Assumption.- Reductions to IID: Parallel Interaction.- Reductions to IID: Sequential Interaction.- Showcase: Non-signalling Parallel Repetition.- Showcase: Device-independent Quantum Cryptography.- Outlook.- Appendix.

Rotem Arnon-Friedman is a postdoctoral researcher at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department of University of California Berkeley, USA. She received her PhD at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, under the supervision of Prof. Renato Renner. Prior to that, she completed her MSc at the Computer Science department of Tel-Aviv University, Israel, under the supervision of Prof. Amnon Ta-Shma.