Real-time preparation and verification of nonstabilizer states
Abstract
Entanglement lies at the heart of quantum information science, serving as a key resource for quantum communication, computation, and metrology. Consequently, high-precision entangled state preparation and efficient verification are essential for practical quantum technologies. Quantum state verification (QSV) has recently gained much attention as an efficient and experiment-friendly approach for verifying entangled states. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate a QSV protocol for verifying three-qubit nonstabilizer state via a modified homogeneous strategy. Notably, our implementation extends QSV beyond its standard role by integrating the state preparation process, thus guiding and validating the real-time generation of high-fidelity target states. Specifically, we realize the efficient verification with a favorable scaling of the required number of copies versus infidelity as , outperforming the standard quantum limit of . Meanwhile, a fidelity of via direct estimation is achieved using only measurement settings and samples, which is independently confirmed by quantum state tomography to be with approximately measurements. This work presents the first experimental demonstration of QSV actively assisted with state preparation, establishing it as a powerful and resource-efficient alternative to full tomography for real-time quantum state engineering.
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@article{arxiv.2507.11180,
title = {Real-time preparation and verification of nonstabilizer states},
author = {Jian Li and Ye-Chao Liu and Xiao-Xiao Chen and Zhe Meng and Xing-Yan Fan and Wen-Hao Wang and Jie Ma and An-Ning Zhang and Jiangwei Shang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.11180},
year = {2025}
}
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6+4 pages, 7 figures; comments are welcome!