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Localized closed timelike curves can perfectly distinguish quantum states
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🪐 quant-ph
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closedcurvestimelikequantumaccessdistinguishpartyperfectly
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We show that qubits traveling along closed timelike curves are a resource that a party can exploit to distinguish perfectly any set of quantum states. As a result, an adversary with access to closed timelike curves can break any prepare-and-measure quantum key distribution protocol. Our result also implies that a party with access to closed timelike curves can violate the Holevo bound.
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