Black Hole Radiation Decoding in the Haar Random Oracle Model
Abstract
We prove optimal query bounds for recovering a single qubit from black-hole radiation in the Haar random oracle model, when the remaining black hole contains at most one sixteenth of the system's qubits. Recovery with any constant Haar-averaged advantage over trivial decoding requires queries proportional to the Hilbert-space dimension of the remaining black hole. The lower bound is unconditional for decoders chosen independently of the sampled unitary, allows arbitrary computation between queries, and access to U, U†, U*, U T along with the controlled variants. An existing decoder using only forward and inverse queries attains a matching bound. The proof uses a path recording oracle to compare real and maximally mixed states. As applications, we obtain an efficiently preparable, statistically far, computationally indistinguishable (EFI) pair and quantum commitments relative to a public Haar oracle, as well as prove a tight linear rank lower bound for Uhlmann transformation on a fixed-target family.
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BibTeX
@misc{cochran2026black,
title = {{Black Hole Radiation Decoding in the Haar Random Oracle Model}},
author = {Ezekiel Cochran and Atul Mantri},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.07124},
eprint = {2610.07124},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07124},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Black Hole Radiation Decoding in the Haar Random Oracle Model
AU - Ezekiel Cochran
AU - Atul Mantri
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/05
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.07124
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07124
AB - We prove optimal query bounds for recovering a single qubit from black-hole radiation in the Haar random oracle model, when the remaining black hole contains at most one sixteenth of the system's qubits. Recovery with any constant Haar-averaged advantage over trivial decoding requires queries proportional to the Hilbert-space dimension of the remaining black hole. The lower bound is unconditional for decoders chosen independently of the sampled unitary, allows arbitrary computation between queries, and access to U, U^†, U^*, U^ T along with the controlled variants. An existing decoder using only forward and inverse queries attains a matching bound. The proof uses a path recording oracle to compare real and maximally mixed states. As applications, we obtain an efficiently preparable, statistically far, computationally indistinguishable (EFI) pair and quantum commitments relative to a public Haar oracle, as well as prove a tight linear rank lower bound for Uhlmann transformation on a fixed-target family.
ER -