Recent Trends and Open Challenges in Blind Quantum Computation

Abstract

Quantum mechanics with radically novel properties: such as superposition, entanglement, and the no-cloning theorem, has begun to open up Quantum Computation beyond the scope of Classical Computation. In recent years, quantum technology has seen tremendous leaps both in academic research and commercial exploration. Quantum computation has started to find applications in many more new domains every day, from disrupting modern cryptography to enabling unconventional security techniques, from quantum chemistry to physical simulations, and from quantum machine learning to financial optimization. This paper first provides the conceptual groundings of quantum computation and explores blind quantum computation, a one-of-its-kind sub-categorization of quantum computing active research. The use of Blind Quantum Computation in Quantum Cryptography is elaborated in detail. Finally concludes with highlights of the applicability of the subject. The paper is an easy-to-follow guide introducing the research trends and open challenges for the new researcher in follow-up on the field. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.