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I'm a postdoctoral researcher with Andreas Bluhm at the LIG (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, CNRS). I work in Quantum Information Theory, more specifically on nonlocality and quantum cryptography.

• [2026—now]	Postdoc with Andreas Bluhm (CNRS, Univ. Grenoble Alpes);
• [2025—2026]	Postdoc with Omar Fawzi (INRIA, ENS Lyon);
• [2022—2025]	Ph.D. with Anne Broadbent (Univ. of Ottawa), Ion Nechita (CNRS, Univ. of Toulouse), and Clément Pellegrini (Univ. of Toulouse) [ manuscript].

Contact:   pierre.botteron @ ens-lyon.fr

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Research Interests

We explore foundational aspects of quantum information theory and quantum cryptography.

Keywords:

• Nonlocal games,
• Communication complexity,
• Quantum cryptography.

Foundations of QIT: We investigate quantum correlations in interactive settings, including the CHSH and graph isomorphism games. We aim to distinguish quantum correlations from non-signaling correlations by leveraging the principle of communication complexity. To this end, we employ techniques such as distributed computation, majority-function-based distillation protocols, the algebraic and geometric properties of nonlocal box wirings, and variations of some graph properties such as isomorphism, transitivity, and equitable partitions. This inquiry advances our understanding of non-physical correlations.

Quantum Cryptography: We address a key open problem in cryptography: the feasibility of unclonable encryption. We aim to construct an encryption scheme that prevents two distant parties from simultaneously obtaining information about a shared encrypted message. We introduce a candidate for unclonable encryption in the plain model, i.e. without assumptions, in working towards an unconditional proof. Our protocol is based on Clifford algebra, utilizing complex Hermitian unitary matrices that anti-commute. For small key sizes, we rigorously prove security using sum-of-squares methods, while for larger key sizes, we provide strong numerical evidence via the NPA hierarchy.

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