arxivquant-pheess.SY2026-07-17
Maximal quantum leakage: operational interpretation and quantum channel analysis
Shuixin Xiao, Zijia Zhao, Jingge Zhu, Farhad Farokhi
Maximal quantum leakage quantifies privacy against adversaries with arbitrary intentions. In this work, we prove that computing this leakage is equivalent to minimum-error quantum state discrimination with equal priors. This establishes a computable operational interpretation, ad…