James Pope

DPhil student in quantum information theory under the supervision of Artur Ekert. My current research is in device-independent cryptography, which theoretically allows for secure key distribution (amongst other tasks) using devices of unknown provenance and perhaps even manufactured and programmed by an adversary. My particular interest lies in the degree of "free will" the experimenters have in selecting from a set of measurements used in a Bell test, where the correlations of outcomes generated from these inputs provide the security in device-independent cryptographic tasks. Whilst the measurement selections are typically uniform, an adversary can fake the guarantee of security given sufficient influence over the choice of inputs, and protocols must therefore be made robust against this free will loophole.

I have some attachment to Vlatko Vedral's research group in the Department of Physics, and frequently visit the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore.