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Trapped-ion processors are leading candidates for scalable quantum computation. However, motional heating remains a key obstacle to fault-tolerant operation, especially when system size increases. Heating error is particularly challenging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Zixuan Huo , Yangchao Shen , Xiao Yuan , Xiao-Ming Zhang

Recent advancements in quantum technologies have highlighted the importance of mitigating system imperfections, including parameter uncertainties and decoherence effects, to improve the performance of experimental platforms. However, most…

The preparation of a quantum state using a noisy quantum computer (gate noise strength $\delta$), will necessarily affect an O($\delta$)-fraction of the qubits, no matter which protocol is used. Here, we show that fault-tolerant quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Matthias Christandl , Omar Fawzi , Ashutosh Goswami

This paper presents a high-throughput fault-resilient hardware implementation of AES S-box, called HFS-box. If a transient natural or even malicious fault in each pipeline stage is detected, the corresponding error signal becomes high and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Mahdi Taheri , Saeideh Sheikhpour , Mohammad Saeed Ansari , Ali Mahani

Sensitivity to noise makes most of the current quantum computing schemes prone to error and nonscalable, allowing only for small proof-of-principle devices. Topologically-protected quantum computing aims at solving this problem by encoding…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-12-17 Helmut G. Katzgraber , Ruben S. Andrist

Information security is one of the most important aspects of technology, we cannot protect the best interests of our organizations' assets (be that personnel, data, or other resources), without ensuring that these assetsare protected to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-09 David Hood , Syed Shawon Rahman

With the growing reliance on cloud-based quantum computing, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of quantum computations is paramount. Quantum Trusted Execution Environments (QTEEs) have been proposed to protect users' quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Theodoros Trochatos , Jakub Szefer

Covert channels are communication channels used by attackers to transmit information from a compromised system when the access control policy of the system does not allow doing so. Previous work has shown that CPU frequency scaling can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Manuel Kalmbach , Mathias Gottschlag , Tim Schmidt , Frank Bellosa

Not long ago, it was thought that only software applications and general purpose digital systems i.e. computers were prone to various types of attacks against their security. The underlying hardware, hardware implementations of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam , Muhammad Naeem Ayyaz

Software components for on-board architectures in the space domain are increasingly reliant on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS), Open Source (OSS) or other third party software products. However, these software components often have not been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-08-23 David Escorial Rico , Mark Hann

Over-the-air computation has the potential to increase the communication-efficiency of data-dependent distributed wireless systems, but is vulnerable to eavesdropping. We consider over-the-air computation over block-fading additive white…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Luis Maßny , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

The Network-on-Chip (NoC) paradigm has been proposed as a favorable solution to handle the strict communication requirements between the increasingly large number of cores on a single chip. However, NoC systems are exposed to the aggressive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Khanh N Dang , Michael Meyer , Yuichi Okuyama , Abderazek Ben Abdallah

Despite the deployment of preventive security mechanisms to protect the assets and computing platforms of users, intrusions eventually occur. We propose a novel intrusion survivability approach to withstand ongoing intrusions. Our approach…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Ronny Chevalier , David Plaquin , Chris Dalton , Guillaume Hiet

Learning-based navigation systems are widely used in autonomous applications, such as robotics, unmanned vehicles and drones. Specialized hardware accelerators have been proposed for high-performance and energy-efficiency for such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Zishen Wan , Aqeel Anwar , Yu-Shun Hsiao , Tianyu Jia , Vijay Janapa Reddi , Arijit Raychowdhury

One of the major challenges for erroneous quantum computers is undoubtedly the control over the effect of noise. Considering the rapid growth of available quantum resources that are not fully fault-tolerant, it is crucial to develop…

Neural operators have emerged as powerful surrogates for modeling complex physical problems. However, they suffer from spectral bias making them oblivious to high-frequency modes, which are present in multiscale physical systems. Therefore,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Siavash Khodakarami , Vivek Oommen , Aniruddha Bora , George Em Karniadakis

Transformer models rely on High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources for inference, where soft errors are inevitable in large-scale systems, making the reliability of the model particularly critical. Existing fault tolerance frameworks for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Huangliang Dai , Shixun Wu , Jiajun Huang , Zizhe Jian , Yue Zhu , Haiyang Hu , Zizhong Chen

Quantum computation holds the promise of solving certain complex problems exponentially faster than classical computers. However, the high prevalent noise in current quantum devices impedes the accurate execution of even basic algorithms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Prithviraj Prabhu

Embedded software is developed under the assumption that hardware execution is always correct. Fault attacks break and exploit that assumption. Through the careful introduction of targeted faults, an adversary modifies the control-flow or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Bilgiday Yuce , Patrick Schaumont , Marc Witteman

Solid state qubits realized in superconducting circuits are potentially extremely scalable. However, strong decoherence may be transferred to the qubits by various elements of the circuits that couple individual qubits, particularly when…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Storcz , J. Vala , K. R. Brown , J. Kempe , F. K. Wilhelm , K. B. Whaley