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Renato Renner

Renato Renner

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Computer Science
Switzerland
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
77
Citations
21352
World Ranking
1287
National Ranking
32

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Renato Renner is a researcher affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their work spans the fields of Computer Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence and several domains within physics.

The main subfields in which Renato Renner has contributed include Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Physiology, and the History and Philosophy of Science.

The principal topics of Renato Renner's research encompass Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Quantum Information and Cryptography, Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture, Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Neural Networks and Applications, Statistical Mechanics and Entropy, and Quantum Many-Body Systems.

Renato Renner has published extensively, with frequent contributions appearing in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • Communications in Mathematical Physics

Notable recent papers by Renato Renner include:

  • "Discovering Physical Concepts with Neural Networks", 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Security in quantum cryptography", 2022, Reviews of Modern Physics
  • "Experimental quantum key distribution certified by Bell's theorem", 2022, Nature
  • "Entropy Accumulation", 2020, Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • "Advantage Distillation for Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution", 2020, Physical Review Letters

Renato Renner has collaborated frequently with several scholars, including:

  • Tony Metger
  • David Sutter
  • Ernest Y.-Z. Tan
  • Omar Fawzi
  • Ramona Wolf

Best Publications

  • The Operational Meaning of Min- and Max-Entropy

    R. Konig;R. Renner;C. Schaffner

  • Tight finite-key analysis for quantum cryptography

    Marco Tomamichel;Charles Ci Wen Lim;Nicolas Gisin;Renato Renner

  • Information-theoretic security proof for quantum-key-distribution protocols

    Renato Renner;Nicolas Gisin;Barbara Kraus

  • Indifferentiability, Impossibility Results on Reductions, and Applications to the Random Oracle Methodology

    Ueli M. Maurer;Renato Renner;Clemens Holenstein

  • Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself

    Daniela Frauchiger;Renato Renner

  • The operational meaning of min- and max-entropy

    Robert Koenig;Renato Renner;Christian Schaffner

  • Discovering Physical Concepts with Neural Networks

    Raban Iten;Tony Metger;Henrik Wilming;Lídia Pacheco Cañamero B. del Rio

  • Quantum cryptography with finite resources: unconditional security bound for discrete-variable protocols with one-way postprocessing.

    Valerio Scarani;Renato Renner

  • A Fully Quantum Asymptotic Equipartition Property

    M. Tomamichel;R. Colbeck;R. Renner

  • Universally composable privacy amplification against quantum adversaries

    Renato Renner;Robert König

  • Lower and upper bounds on the secret-key rate for quantum key distribution protocols using one-way classical communication

    Barbara Kraus;Nicolas Gisin;Renato Renner

  • Postselection technique for quantum channels with applications to quantum cryptography.

    Matthias Christandl;Robert König;Renato Renner

  • Symmetry of large physical systems implies independence of subsystems

    Renato Renner

  • Leftover Hashing Against Quantum Side Information

    M. Tomamichel;C. Schaffner;A. Smith;R. Renner

  • Security in Quantum Cryptography.

    Christopher Portmann;Renato Renner

  • Simple and tight bounds for information reconciliation and privacy amplification

    Renato Renner;Stefan Wolf

  • Quantum Conditional Mutual Information and Approximate Markov Chains

    Omar Fawzi;Omar Fawzi;Renato Renner

  • Security of Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution Against General Attacks

    Anthony Leverrier;Anthony Leverrier;Raúl García-Patrón;Renato Renner;Nicolas J. Cerf

  • Practical device-independent quantum cryptography via entropy accumulation.

    Rotem Arnon-Friedman;Frédéric Dupont Dupuis;Omar Fawzi;Renato Renner

  • Duality Between Smooth Min- and Max-Entropies

    M Tomamichel;R Colbeck;R Renner

  • Is a system's wave function in one-to-one correspondence with its elements of reality?

    Roger Colbeck;Renato Renner

  • Information-theoretic security proof for quantum-key-distribution protocols (17 pages)

    N. Gisin;B. Kraus;R. Renner

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Wolf
Stefan Wolf Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Nicolas Gisin
Nicolas Gisin University of Geneva
Ueli Maurer
Ueli Maurer ETH Zurich
Vlatko Vedral
Vlatko Vedral University of Oxford
Anton Zeilinger
Anton Zeilinger University of Vienna
Thomas Vidick
Thomas Vidick California Institute of Technology
Christian Schaffner
Christian Schaffner University of Amsterdam
Andreas Winter
Andreas Winter University of Cologne
Harald Weinfurter
Harald Weinfurter Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
John Rarity
John Rarity University of Bristol

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