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Real-time preparation and verification of nonstabilizer states

Quantum Physics 2025-07-16 v1

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 WW 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 1.39-1.39, outperforming the standard quantum limit of 2-2. Meanwhile, a fidelity of 97.07(±0.26)%97.07(\pm 0.26)\% via direct estimation is achieved using only 99 measurement settings and 10410^4 samples, which is independently confirmed by quantum state tomography to be 98.58(±0.12)%98.58(\pm 0.12)\% with approximately 10610^6 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!