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The meteoric rise in power and popularity of machine learning models dependent on valuable training data has reignited a basic tension between the power of running a program locally and the risk of exposing details of that program to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Sam Gunn , Ramis Movassagh

This article develops a protocol to synchronize clocks on board a network of satellites equipped with quantum resources. We show that, in such a constellation, satellites reinforce each other's sync capabilities, forming a common clock that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Sage Ducoing , Ivan Agullo , James E. Troupe , Stav Haldar

We introduce a novel algorithm for the task of coherently controlling a quantum mechanical system to implement any chosen unitary dynamics. It performs faster than existing state of the art methods by one to three orders of magnitude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Pierre de Fouquieres

Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) has been extensively studied in distributed trustless systems to guarantee system's functioning when up to 1/3 Byzantine processes exist. Despite a plethora of previous work in BFT systems, they are mainly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Quan Nguyen , Andre Cronje

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) provide a promising approach to achieve quantum advantage in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era. In this era, quantum computers experience high error rates and quantum error detection and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Salonik Resch , Anthony Gutierrez , Joon Suk Huh , Srikant Bharadwaj , Yasuko Eckert , Gabriel Loh , Mark Oskin , Swamit Tannu

Quantum algorithms are known for presenting more efficient solutions to certain computational tasks than any corresponding classical algorithm. It has been thought that the origin of the power of quantum computation has its roots in…

We propose a protocol for creating a fully entangled GHZ-type state of neutral atoms in spatially separated optical atomic clocks. In our scheme, local operations make use of the strong dipole-dipole interaction between Rydberg excitations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 P. Kómár , T. Topcu , E. M. Kessler , A. Derevianko , V. Vuletić , J. Ye , M. D. Lukin

Quantum systems have potential to demonstrate significant computational advantage, but current quantum devices suffer from the rapid accumulation of error that prevents the storage of quantum information over extended periods. The…

Large quantum computers promise to solve some critical problems not solvable otherwise. However, modern quantum technologies suffer various imperfections such as control errors and qubit decoherence, inhibiting their potential utility. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-19 Andrii Maksymov , Jason Nguyen , Yunseong Nam , Igor Markov

Practical implementation of many quantum algorithms known today is limited by the coherence time of the executing quantum hardware and quantum sampling noise. Here we present a machine learning algorithm, NISQRC, for qubit-based quantum…

Mixed state quantum computation can perform certain tasks which are believed to be efficiently intractable on a classical computer. For a specific model of mixed state quantum computation, namely, {\it deterministic quantum computation with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-10 Mazhar Ali

This paper explores the problem good-case latency of Byzantine fault-tolerant broadcast, motivated by the real-world latency and performance of practical state machine replication protocols. The good-case latency measures the time it takes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Ittai Abraham , Kartik Nayak , Ling Ren , Zhuolun Xiang

Quantum communication networks are crucial for both secure communication and cryptographic networked tasks. Building quantum communication networks in a scalable and cost-effective way is essential for their widespread adoption, among which…

Finding a provably correct subquadratic synchronization algorithm for many filesystem replicas is one of the main theoretical problems in Operational Transformation (OT) and Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) frameworks. Based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Elod P. Csirmaz , Laszlo Csirmaz

We introduce logical synchrony, a framework that allows distributed computing to be coordinated as tightly as in synchronous systems without the distribution of a global clock or any reference to universal time. We develop a model of events…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Sanjay Lall , Calin Cascaval , Martin Izzard , Tammo Spalink

In Byzantine agreement with predictions each process begins with an input value and some (unreliable) prediction bits. Recently, it has been shown that with \emph{classification predictions} -- where the predictions predict each process to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Muhammad Ayaz Dzulfikar , Seth Gilbert

This paper proposes an algorithm for synthesis of clock-follow-data designs that provides robustness against timing violations for RSFQ circuits while maintaining high performance and minimizing area costs. Since superconducting logic gates…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Robert S. Aviles , Phalgun G K , Peter A. Beerel

Progress in the realm of quantum technologies is paving the way for a multitude of potential applications across different sectors. However, the reduced number of available quantum computers, their technical limitations and the high demand…

Service replication distributes an application over many processes for tolerating faults, attacks, and misbehavior among a subset of the processes. The established state-machine replication paradigm inherently requires the application to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Christian Cachin , Simon Schubert , Marko Vukolić

The optical Bell State Analyzer (BSA) plays a key role in the optical generation of entanglement in quantum networks. The optical BSA is effective in controlling the timing of arriving photons to achieve interference. It is unclear whether…