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Network administration is an inherently complex task, in particular with regard to security. Using the Isabelle interactive proof assistant, we develop two automated, formally verified tools which help uncovering and preventing bugs in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Cornelius Diekmann

We present a generic compiler that converts any $\mathsf{MIP}^{*}$ protocol into a succinct interactive argument where the communication and the verifier are classical, and where post-quantum soundness relies on the post-quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Andrew Huang , Yael Tauman Kalai

To employ a quantum device, the performance of the quantum gates in the device needs to be evaluated first. Since the dimensionality of a quantum gate grows exponentially with the number of qubits, evaluating the performance of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Maolin Luo , Xiaoqian Zhang , Xiaoqi Zhou

As modern computing moves towards smaller devices and powerful cloud platforms, more and more computation is being delegated to powerful service providers. Interactive proofs are a widely-used model to design efficient protocols for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Jing Chen , Samuel McCauley , Shikha Singh

In this letter, we proposed a quantum authentication protocol. The authentication process is implemented by the symmetric cryptographic scheme with quantum effects.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guihua Zeng , Guangcan Guo

Formal verification is crucial for ensuring the robustness of security protocols against adversarial attacks. The Needham-Schroeder protocol, a foundational authentication mechanism, has been extensively studied, including its integration…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kangfeng Ye , Roberto Metere , Jim Woodcock , Poonam Yadav

Suppose that a polynomial-time mixed-state quantum circuit, described as a sequence of local unitary interactions followed by a partial trace, generates a quantum state shared between two parties. One might then wonder, does this quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Patrick Hayden , Kevin Milner , Mark M. Wilde

As progress on experimental quantum processors continues to advance, the problem of verifying the correct operation of such devices is becoming a pressing concern. The recent discovery of protocols for verifying computation performed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-03 Michal Hajdušek , Carlos A. Pérez-Delgado , Joseph F. Fitzsimons

We introduce Quantum Spectral Authentication (QSA), a primitive for verifying that a remote quantum endpoint still possesses a previously installed secret quantum resource, such as a hidden state or state-preparation capability, without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 S. P. Kish , H. J. Vallury , J. Pieprzyk , C. Thapa , S. Camtepe

Interactive verification protocols for quantum computations allow to build trust between a client and a service provider, ensuring the former that the instructed computation was carried out faithfully. They come in two variants, one without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Amit Saha , Harold Ollivier

We pioneer a new technique that allows us to prove a multitude of previously open simulations in QBF proof complexity. In particular, we show that extended QBF Frege p-simulates clausal proof systems such as IR-Calculus, IRM-Calculus,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Leroy Chew , Friedrich Slivovsky

A novel algorithm for performing parallel, distributed computer simulations on the Internet using IP control messages is introduced. The algorithm employs carefully constructed ICMP packets which enable the required computations to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-11-07 G. A. Kohring

The security of the proposed quantum Internet relies on repeater protocols designed under the assumption of stochastic, characterizable noise. We demonstrate that in adversarial environments this assumption induces performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Abhishek Sadhu , Sharu Theresa Jose

We report an accurate and efficient classical simulation of a kicked Ising quantum system on the heavy-hexagon lattice. A simulation of this system was recently performed on a 127 qubit quantum processor using noise mitigation techniques to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Joseph Tindall , Matt Fishman , Miles Stoudenmire , Dries Sels

We point out that realization of quantum communication protocols in programmable quantum computers provides a deep benchmark for capabilities of real quantum hardware. Particularly, it is prospective to focus on measurements of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 A. A. Zhukov , E. O. Kiktenko , A. A. Elistratov , W. V. Pogosov , Yu. E. Lozovik

We simulate the excited states of the Lipkin model using the recently proposed Quantum Equation of Motion (qEOM) method. The qEOM generalizes the EOM on classical computers and gives access to collective excitations based on quasi-boson…

We propose a quantum-state-certification protocol for stabilizer states, motivated by application in in-situ testing of NISQ-era quantum computer systems: The number of qubits is bounded, and in terms of cost of running the protocol,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Dirk Oliver Theis

Verification is a task to check whether a given quantum state is close to an ideal state or not. In this paper, we show that a variety of many-qubit quantum states can be verified with only sequential single-qubit measurements of Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Yuki Takeuchi , Tomoyuki Morimae

Approximate circuits often achieve exceptional trade-offs between computational accuracy and hardware efficiency, making them attractive for deployment as reusable Intellectual Property (IP) cores. However, safeguarding such circuits…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Lukas Sekanina , Vojtech Mrazek

Quantum network protocols offer new functionalities such as enhanced security to communication and computational systems. Despite the rapid progress in quantum hardware, it has not yet reached a level of maturity that enables execution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 Chin-Te Liao , Sima Bahrani , Francisco Ferreira da Silva , Elham Kashefi