My research interests are centered around quantum computation, communication and cryptography, both in theory and in practice. My current work is mostly about quantum protocols with provable security in realistic environments. I am also interested in quantum and classical security and cryptography, especially secure multi-party computation and the primitives on which it is based (oblivious transfer, bit commitment, etc).
Publications
Classical Multiparty Computation using Quantum Resources

Classical Multiparty Computing using Quantum Resources
Marco Clementi, Anna Pappa, Andreas Eckstein, Ian A. Walmsley, Elham Kashefi and Stefanie Barz, Phys. Rev. A 96, 062317 (2017).
Multiparty Quantum Computing

Quantum Supremacy
Information Theoretically Secure Hypothesis Test for Temporally Unstructured Quantum Computation Daniel Mills, Anna Pappa, Theodoros Kapourniotis, Elham Kashefi, Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2017), Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 3-7 July 2017, EPTCS 266, pp. 209–221. |
Coin Flipping

Experimental Plug and Play Quantum Coin Flipping
Anna Pappa, Paul Jouguet, Thomas Lawson, André Chailloux, Matthieu Legré, Patrick Trinkler, Iordanis Kerenidis, Eleni Diamanti, Nature Communications 5:3717 (2014).
Practical Quantum Coin Flipping
Anna Pappa, André Chailloux, Eleni Diamanti, Iordanis Kerenidis, Physical Review A 84, 052305 (2011).
Entanglement Verification

Experimental Verification of Multipartite Entanglement in Quantum Networks
McCutcheon, W., Pappa, A., Bell, B., McMillan, A., Chailloux, A., Lawson, T., Mafu, M., Markham, D., Kerenidis, I., Diamanti, E., Rarity, J. and M. Tame. Nature Communications 7, 13251 (2016).
Multipartite entanglement verification resistant against dishonest parties
Anna Pappa, André Chailloux, Stephanie Wehner, Eleni Diamanti, Iordanis Kerenidis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 260502 (2012).
McCutcheon, W., Pappa, A., Bell, B., McMillan, A., Chailloux, A., Lawson, T., Mafu, M., Markham, D., Kerenidis, I., Diamanti, E., Rarity, J. and M. Tame. Nature Communications 7, 13251 (2016).
Multipartite entanglement verification resistant against dishonest parties
Anna Pappa, André Chailloux, Stephanie Wehner, Eleni Diamanti, Iordanis Kerenidis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 260502 (2012).
Quantum Games

Nonlocality and conflicting interest games
Anna Pappa, Niraj Kumar, Thomas Lawson, Miklos Santha, Shengyu Zhang, Eleni Diamanti, Iordanis Kerenidis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 020401 (2015).
Anna Pappa, Niraj Kumar, Thomas Lawson, Miklos Santha, Shengyu Zhang, Eleni Diamanti, Iordanis Kerenidis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 020401 (2015).
Reference Frame Independence

Reliable experimental quantification of bipartite entanglement without reference frames
Thomas Lawson, Anna Pappa, Boris Bourdoncle, Iordanis Kerenidis, Damian Markham, Eleni Diamanti, Physical Review A 90, 042336 (2014).
Quantum Hacking

Attacks exploiting deviation of mean photon number in quantum key distribution and coin-tossing
Shihan Sajeed, Igor Radchenko, Sarah Kaiser, Jean-Philippe Bourgoin, Anna Pappa, Laurent Monat, Matthieu Legre, Vadim Makarov, Physical Review A 91, 032326 (2015).
Presentations
- Trustworthy Quantum Information Workshop, 19 June 2017, Paris, France.
- Theory and Practice of Multiparty Computation Workshop, 3-7 April 2017, University of Bristol, UK.
- Quantum Computation and Communication Midwinter Meeting WIC, 16 February 2017, University of Eindhoven, Netherlands.
- Quisco meeting, 04 December 2015, University of Glasgow, UK.
- Ethical Hacking course (guest lecture), 20 November 2015, University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK.
- Cryptoforma meeting, 30 October 2015, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.
- QCRYPT 2015: Fifth Annual Conference on Quantum Cryptography, 28 Sep-2 Oct 2015, Tokyo, Japan.
- QIPC 2015: Quantum Information Processing and Communicaiton, 13-18 September 2015, Leeds, UK.
- Ultrafast Quantum Optics and Optical Metrology Group, 18 March 2015, University of Oxford (Seminar).
- QCRYPT 2014 : Fourth Annual Conference on Quantum Cryptography, 10-15 September 2014, Paris, France.
- Quantum Information Group, University of Bristol, 13 February 2014 (Seminar).
- Theoretical Computer Science and Quantum Computing Group (LITQ), University of Montreal, 20 November 2013 (Seminar).
- ACAC'13, 8th Athens Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity, 22-23 August 2013, Athens.
- Frequency Project Final Meeting, 18-19 February 2013, Paris, France.
- QIP'13, 16th Workshop on Quantum Information Processing (poster), 21-25 January 2013, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- Topical Research Meetings on Physics: Quantum Technologies, taking concepts through to implementations, 17-18 December 2012, Institute of Physics, London.
- 2nd Workshop of GDR - IQFA, 28-30 november 2012, Institut Neel, Grenoble (poster).
- ACAC'12, 7th Athens Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity, 27-28 August 2012, Athens.
- TQC'12, 7th Conference on Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography, 17-19 may 2012, Tokyo.
- Journée "Fédération de Recherche en Mathématiques de Paris Centre/GT-Information Quantique", 9-10 may 2012, Université Denis Diderot, Paris.
- 1st Workshop of GDR - IQFA, 23-25 november 2011, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris.
- QuPA Seminar, 29 September 2011, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris.
- QCRYPT 2011 : First Annual Conference on Quantum Cryptography, 12-16 September, 2011, Zurich (poster).
- 1st colloquium of GDR - IQFA, 23-25 Mars 2011, Parc Valrose, Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis (poster).