Robust self-testing of many-qubit states
Abstract
We introduce a simple two-player test which certifies that the players apply tensor products of Pauli and observables on the tensor product of EPR pairs. The test has constant robustness: any strategy achieving success probability within an additive of the optimal must be -close, in the appropriate distance measure, to the honest -qubit strategy. The test involves -bit questions and -bit answers. The key technical ingredient is a quantum version of the classical linearity test of Blum, Luby, and Rubinfeld. As applications of our result we give (i) the first robust self-test for EPR pairs; (ii) a quantum multiprover interactive proof system for the local Hamiltonian problem with a constant number of provers and classical questions and answers, and a constant completeness-soundness gap independent of system size; (iii) a robust protocol for delegated quantum computation.
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@article{arxiv.1610.03574,
title = {Robust self-testing of many-qubit states},
author = {Anand Natarajan and Thomas Vidick},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03574},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
36 pages. Improves upon and supersedes our earlier submission arXiv:1512.02090