Publications

1. L. Abecasis, P. Mateus and C. Vlachou, An Attack to Universally Composable Commitments from Malicious Physically Uncloneable Functions and how to Avoid it, International Conference on Provable and Practical Security (ProvSec), Yokohama Japan 2025, Proceedings pp. 299-326, DOI, ePrint. 

2. A. Singh Arora, J. Roland, C. Vlachou and S. Weis, Protocols for quantum weak coin flipping, TheoretiCS Vol. 4 (26), 1-76 (2025). DOI (open access) 

3. M.B. Santos, P. Mateus and C. Vlachou, Quantum Universally Composable Oblivious Linear Evaluation, Quantum 8, 1507 (2024). Journal version (open access) 

4. A. Singh Arora, J. Roland, C. Vlachou and S. Weis, Solutions to quantum weak coin flipping, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2022/1101 (2022). ePrint 

5. A. Singh Arora, J. Roland and C. Vlachou, Analytic quantum weak coin flipping protocols with arbitrarily small bias, Proceedings of the 2021 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA21), pp. 919-938 (2021). Proceedings version, arXiv 

6. J. K. Pachos and C. Vlachou, Quantifying fermionic interactions from the violation of Wick’s theorem, Quantum 6, 840 (2022). Journal version (Open access)

7. M. Doda, M. Huber, G. Murta, M. Pivoluska, M. Plesch and C. Vlachou, Quantum key distribution overcoming extreme noise: simultaneous subspace coding using high-dimensional entanglement, Phys. Rev. Applied 15, 034003 (2021). Journal version, arXiv  

8. S. T. Amin, B. Mera, C. Vlachou, N. Paunković and V. R. Vieira, Fidelity and Uhlmann connection analysis of topological phase transitions in two dimensions, Physical Review B 98, 245141 (2018). Journal version, arXiv 

9. B. Mera, C. Vlachou, N. Paunković, V. R. Vieira and O. Viyuela, Dynamical phase transitions at finite temperature from fidelity and interferometric Loschmidt echo induced metrics, Physical Review B 97, 094110 (2018).  Journal version, arXiv  

10. C. Vlachou, W. O. Krawec, P. Mateus, N. Paunković and A. Souto, Quantum key distribution with quantum walks, Quantum Information Processing 17, 288 (2018). Journal version, arXiv 

11. B. Mera, C. Vlachou, N. Paunković and V. R. Vieira, Boltzmann-Gibbs states in topological quantum walks and associated many-body systems: Fidelity and Uhlmann parallel transport analysis of phase transitions, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 50, 365302, (2017). Journal version, arXiv 

12. B. Mera, C. Vlachou, N. Paunković and V. R. Vieira, The Uhlmann connection in fermionic systems undergoing phase transitions, Physical Review Letters 119, 015702 (2017). Journal version, arXiv 

13. C. Vlachou, J. Rodrigues, P. Mateus, N. Paunković and A. Souto, Quantum walks public-key cryptographic system, International Journal of Quantum Information, 13 (6), 1550050 (2015). Journal version, arXiv 

14. C. Vlachou, J. Rodrigues, P. Mateus, N. Paunković and A. Souto, Quantum walks public-key cryptographic system, Proceedings of Conftele2015, 10 (2015). Extended abstract