Challenges
Datasets
Workspaces
Papers
Discussions
Leaderboard
Log inSign up
Challenges
Datasets
Workspaces
Papers
Discussions
Leaderboard
Blog
Job Board
Q3AS

© 2026 Aqora Quantum S.A.S.

TermsPrivacyLegal Notice

arXiv:2201.11127

Constant-time one-shot testing of large-scale graph states

Hayata Yamasaki, Sathyawageeswar Subramanian

Published Jan 26, 2022• 2 citations
arXivHTMLPDF

Abstract

Fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) with recent progress on quantum technologies leads to a promising scalable platform for realizing quantum computation, conducted by preparing a large-scale graph state over many qubits and performing single-qubit measurements on the state. With fault-tolerant MBQC, even if the graph-state preparation suffers from errors occurring at an unknown physical error rate, we can suppress the effect of the errors. Verifying graph states is vital to test whether we can conduct MBQC as desired even with such errors. However, problematically, existing state-of-the-art protocols for graph-state verification by fidelity estimation have required measurements on many copies of the entire graph state and hence have been prohibitively costly in terms of the number of qubits and the runtime. We here construct an efficient alternative framework for testing graph states for fault-tolerant MBQC based on the theory of property testing. Our test protocol accepts with high probability when the physical error rate is small enough to make fault-tolerant MBQC feasible and rejects when the rate is above the threshold of fault-tolerant MBQC. The novelty of our protocol is that we use only a single copy of the $N$-qubit graph state and single-qubit Pauli measurements only on a constant-sized subset of the qubits; thus, the protocol has a constant runtime independently of $N$. Furthermore, we can immediately use the rest of the graph state for fault-tolerant MBQC if the protocol accepts. These results achieve a significant advantage over prior art for graph-state verification in the number of qubits and the total runtime. Consequently, our work offers a new route to a fast and practical framework for benchmarking large-scale quantum state preparation.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2201.11127

Related papers

Robust and efficient verification of graph states in blind measurement-based quantum computation

Zihao Li, Huangjun Zhu, Masahito Hayashi

Abstract Blind quantum computation (BQC) is a secure quantum computation method that protects the privacy of clients. Measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) is a promising approach for realizing BQC. To obtain reliable results in blind MBQC, it is crucial to verify whether the resource graph states are accurately prepared in the adversarial scenario. However, previous verification protocols for this task are too resource-consuming or noise-susceptible to be applied in practice. Here, we propose a robust and efficient protocol for verifying arbitrary graph states with any prime local dimension in the adversarial scenario, which leads to a robust and efficient protocol for verifying the resource state in blind MBQC. Our protocol requires only local Pauli measurements and is thus easy to realize with current technologies. Nevertheless, it can achieve optimal scaling behaviors with respect to the system size and the target precision as quantified by the infidelity and significance level, which has never been achieved before. Notably, our protocol can exponentially enhance the scaling behavior with the significance level.

arXiv:2305.10742•npj Quantum Information•Nov 14, 2023•26 citations

Quantum-classical crossover in fault-tolerant quantum dynamics simulation

Jinzhao Sun, Bozhen Zhou, Jue Xu +28 more

While quantum computers promise to solve classically intractable problems, identifying the point at which fault-tolerant quantum computation outperforms the best classical algorithms for practical applications remains an outstanding challenge. Here we establish a concrete quantum-classical crossover for quantum many-body dynamics under realistic hardware conditions. We introduce a scalable fault-tolerant framework that combines coherent observable estimation with a space-time-efficient implementation of non-Clifford rotations, suppressing the residual logical errors that limit existing partially fault-tolerant approaches. A benchmark against state-of-the-art tensor-network and variational Monte Carlo algorithms reveals a concrete crossover for mixed-field Ising dynamics at modest system sizes. For a physical error rate of $p=10^{-3}$, fault-tolerant simulation requires approximately 2 hours and $3.7 \times 10^5$ physical qubits for a 100-site 1D system, whereas tensor network approaches would require about 100 years. For 2D models, where rapid entanglement growth limits the classical evolution time, we project quantum runtimes within minutes. A physical error rate of $p=10^{-4}$ leads to at least an order of magnitude reduction in qubit count ($3.1 \times 10^4$ physical qubits) and runtime (minutes for 1D and seconds for 2D). The reduction in quantum runtime arises from our improved rotation-state injection and co-design of quantum error correction and observable-estimation protocols, which jointly suppress logical-error accumulation and reduce sampling overhead. Our results establish a scalable route towards practical quantum advantage and identify quantitative engineering targets for future fault-tolerant architectures.

quant-pharXiv:2607.16116•Jul 20, 2026•0 citations

Verification of blind quantum computation with entanglement witnesses

Qingshan Xu, Xiaoqing Tan, Rui Huang +1 more

Verifiable blind quantum computation provides a cloud scenario for scalable quantum information processing. However, constructing one resource-efficient verification protocol is still an open problem. In this paper, the context of verification we consider is the measurement-based model, in which the client receives the graph state prepared by the server and performs single-qubit measurements on it to drive the computation. We first utilize three entanglement witnesses to estimate the fidelity of the prepared graph state. Applying entanglement witnesses to design the test phase, we propose verification protocols. Our protocol requires overhead in terms of copies of the graph state that scales as $O({n}^{2}logn)$, where $n$ is the number of qubits of the graph state. Furthermore, the soundness of our protocol is improved. The advantages of our protocol are derived from the fact that each entanglement witness can be implemented by the client with a fixed number of measurement settings.

Physical Review A•Oct 12, 2021•20 citations

Verifiable fault tolerance in measurement-based quantum computation

Keisuke Fujii, Masahito Hayashi

Quantum systems, in general, cannot be simulated efficiently by a classical computer, and hence are useful for solving certain mathematical problems and simulating quantum many-body systems. This also implies, unfortunately, that verification of the output of the quantum systems is not so trivial, since predicting the output is exponentially hard. As another problem, the quantum system is very delicate for noise and thus needs an error correction. Here, we propose a framework for verification of the output of fault-tolerant quantum computation in a measurement-based model. In contrast to existing analyses on fault tolerance, we do not assume any noise model on the resource state, but an arbitrary resource state is tested by using only single-qubit measurements to verify whether or not the output of measurement-based quantum computation on it is correct. Verifiability is equipped by a constant time repetition of the original measurement-based quantum computation in appropriate measurement bases. Since full characterization of quantum noise is exponentially hard for large-scale quantum computing systems, our framework provides an efficient way to practically verify the experimental quantum error correction.

arXiv:1610.05216•Physical Review A•Sep 25, 2017•53 citations

Single-shot and measurement-based quantum error correction via fault complexes

Timo Hillmann, Guillaume Dauphinais, Ilan Tzitrin +1 more

Photonics provides a viable path to a scalable fault-tolerant quantum computer. The natural framework for this platform is measurement-based quantum computation, where fault-tolerant graph states supersede traditional quantum error-correcting codes. However, the existing formalism for foliation—the construction of fault-tolerant graph states—does not reveal how certain properties, such as single-shot error correction, manifest in the measurement-based setting. We introduce the fault complex, a representation of dynamic quantum error-correction protocols particularly well suited to describe foliation. Our approach enables precise computation of fault tolerance properties of foliated codes and provides insights into circuit-based quantum computation. Analyzing the fault complex yields improved thresholds for three- and four-dimensional toric codes, a generalization of stability experiments, and the existence of single-shot lattice surgery with higher-dimensional topological codes.

arXiv:2410.12963•Physical Review A•Sep 16, 2025•5 citations

Network-Based Quantum Computing: an efficient design framework for many-small-node distributed fault-tolerant quantum computing

Soshun Naito, Yasunari Suzuki, Yuuki Tokunaga

In fault-tolerant quantum computing, a large number of physical qubits are required to construct a single logical qubit, and a single quantum node may be able to hold only a small number of logical qubits. In such a case, the idea of distributed fault-tolerant quantum computing (DFTQC) is important to demonstrate large-scale quantum computation using small-scale nodes. However, the design of distributed systems on small-scale nodes, where each node can store only one or a few logical qubits for computation, has not been explored well yet. In this paper, we propose network-based quantum computation (NBQC) to efficiently realize distributed fault-tolerant quantum computation using many small-scale nodes. A key idea of NBQC is to let computational data continuously move throughout the network while maintaining the connectivity to other nodes. We numerically show that, for practical benchmark tasks, our method achieves shorter execution times than circuit-based strategies and more node-efficient constructions than measurement-based quantum computing. Also, if we are allowed to specialize the network to the structure of quantum programs, such as peak access frequencies, the number of nodes can be significantly reduced. Thus, our methods provide a foundation in designing DFTQC architecture exploiting the redundancy of many small fault-tolerant nodes.

quant-pharXiv:2601.09374•Jan 15, 2026•0 citations
Fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) with recent progress on quantum technologies leads to a promising scalable platform for realizing quantum computation, conducted by preparing a large-scale graph state over many qubits and performing single-qubit measurements on the state. With fault-tolerant MBQC, even if the graph-state preparation suffers from errors occurring at an unknown physical error rate, we can suppress the effect of the errors. Verifying graph states is vital to test whether we can conduct MBQC as desired even with such errors. However, problematically, existing state-of-the-art protocols for graph-state verification by fidelity estimation have required measurements on many copies of the entire graph state and hence have been prohibitively costly in terms of the number of qubits and the runtime. We here construct an efficient alternative framework for testing graph states for fault-tolerant MBQC based on the theory of property testing. Our test protocol accepts with high probability when the physical error rate is small enough to make fault-tolerant MBQC feasible and rejects when the rate is above the threshold of fault-tolerant MBQC. The novelty of our protocol is that we use only a single copy of the NNN-qubit graph state and single-qubit Pauli measurements only on a constant-sized subset of the qubits; thus, the protocol has a constant runtime independently of NNN. Furthermore, we can immediately use the rest of the graph state for fault-tolerant MBQC if the protocol accepts. These results achieve a significant advantage over prior art for graph-state verification in the number of qubits and the total runtime. Consequently, our work offers a new route to a fast and practical framework for benchmarking large-scale quantum state preparation.
Abstract Blind quantum computation (BQC) is a secure quantum computation method that protects the privacy of clients. Measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) is a promising approach for realizing BQC. To obtain reliable results in blind MBQC, it is crucial to verify whether the resource graph states are accurately prepared in the adversarial scenario. However, previous verification protocols for this task are too resource-consuming or noise-susceptible to be applied in practice. Here, we propose a robust and efficient protocol for verifying arbitrary graph states with any prime local dimension in the adversarial scenario, which leads to a robust and efficient protocol for verifying the resource state in blind MBQC. Our protocol requires only local Pauli measurements and is thus easy to realize with current technologies. Nevertheless, it can achieve optimal scaling behaviors with respect to the system size and the target precision as quantified by the infidelity and significance level, which has never been achieved before. Notably, our protocol can exponentially enhance the scaling behavior with the significance level.
While quantum computers promise to solve classically intractable problems, identifying the point at which fault-tolerant quantum computation outperforms the best classical algorithms for practical applications remains an outstanding challenge. Here we establish a concrete quantum-classical crossover for quantum many-body dynamics under realistic hardware conditions. We introduce a scalable fault-tolerant framework that combines coherent observable estimation with a space-time-efficient implementation of non-Clifford rotations, suppressing the residual logical errors that limit existing partially fault-tolerant approaches. A benchmark against state-of-the-art tensor-network and variational Monte Carlo algorithms reveals a concrete crossover for mixed-field Ising dynamics at modest system sizes. For a physical error rate of p=10−3p=10^{-3}p=10−3, fault-tolerant simulation requires approximately 2 hours and 3.7×1053.7 \times 10^53.7×105 physical qubits for a 100-site 1D system, whereas tensor network approaches would require about 100 years. For 2D models, where rapid entanglement growth limits the classical evolution time, we project quantum runtimes within minutes. A physical error rate of p=10−4p=10^{-4}p=10−4 leads to at least an order of magnitude reduction in qubit count (3.1×1043.1 \times 10^43.1×104 physical qubits) and runtime (minutes for 1D and seconds for 2D). The reduction in quantum runtime arises from our improved rotation-state injection and co-design of quantum error correction and observable-estimation protocols, which jointly suppress logical-error accumulation and reduce sampling overhead. Our results establish a scalable route towards practical quantum advantage and identify quantitative engineering targets for future fault-tolerant architectures.
Verifiable blind quantum computation provides a cloud scenario for scalable quantum information processing. However, constructing one resource-efficient verification protocol is still an open problem. In this paper, the context of verification we consider is the measurement-based model, in which the client receives the graph state prepared by the server and performs single-qubit measurements on it to drive the computation. We first utilize three entanglement witnesses to estimate the fidelity of the prepared graph state. Applying entanglement witnesses to design the test phase, we propose verification protocols. Our protocol requires overhead in terms of copies of the graph state that scales as O(n2logn)O({n}^{2}logn)O(n2logn), where nnn is the number of qubits of the graph state. Furthermore, the soundness of our protocol is improved. The advantages of our protocol are derived from the fact that each entanglement witness can be implemented by the client with a fixed number of measurement settings.
Quantum systems, in general, cannot be simulated efficiently by a classical computer, and hence are useful for solving certain mathematical problems and simulating quantum many-body systems. This also implies, unfortunately, that verification of the output of the quantum systems is not so trivial, since predicting the output is exponentially hard. As another problem, the quantum system is very delicate for noise and thus needs an error correction. Here, we propose a framework for verification of the output of fault-tolerant quantum computation in a measurement-based model. In contrast to existing analyses on fault tolerance, we do not assume any noise model on the resource state, but an arbitrary resource state is tested by using only single-qubit measurements to verify whether or not the output of measurement-based quantum computation on it is correct. Verifiability is equipped by a constant time repetition of the original measurement-based quantum computation in appropriate measurement bases. Since full characterization of quantum noise is exponentially hard for large-scale quantum computing systems, our framework provides an efficient way to practically verify the experimental quantum error correction.
Photonics provides a viable path to a scalable fault-tolerant quantum computer. The natural framework for this platform is measurement-based quantum computation, where fault-tolerant graph states supersede traditional quantum error-correcting codes. However, the existing formalism for foliation—the construction of fault-tolerant graph states—does not reveal how certain properties, such as single-shot error correction, manifest in the measurement-based setting. We introduce the fault complex, a representation of dynamic quantum error-correction protocols particularly well suited to describe foliation. Our approach enables precise computation of fault tolerance properties of foliated codes and provides insights into circuit-based quantum computation. Analyzing the fault complex yields improved thresholds for three- and four-dimensional toric codes, a generalization of stability experiments, and the existence of single-shot lattice surgery with higher-dimensional topological codes.
In fault-tolerant quantum computing, a large number of physical qubits are required to construct a single logical qubit, and a single quantum node may be able to hold only a small number of logical qubits. In such a case, the idea of distributed fault-tolerant quantum computing (DFTQC) is important to demonstrate large-scale quantum computation using small-scale nodes. However, the design of distributed systems on small-scale nodes, where each node can store only one or a few logical qubits for computation, has not been explored well yet. In this paper, we propose network-based quantum computation (NBQC) to efficiently realize distributed fault-tolerant quantum computation using many small-scale nodes. A key idea of NBQC is to let computational data continuously move throughout the network while maintaining the connectivity to other nodes. We numerically show that, for practical benchmark tasks, our method achieves shorter execution times than circuit-based strategies and more node-efficient constructions than measurement-based quantum computing. Also, if we are allowed to specialize the network to the structure of quantum programs, such as peak access frequencies, the number of nodes can be significantly reduced. Thus, our methods provide a foundation in designing DFTQC architecture exploiting the redundancy of many small fault-tolerant nodes.