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Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have shown potential for quantum advantage with noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices for quantum machine learning (QML). However, given the high cost and limited availability of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Junhong Yang , Banghai Wang , Junyu Quan , Qin Li

Recently, there are more and more organizations offering quantum-cloud services, where any client can access a quantum computer remotely through the internet. In the near future, these cloud servers may claim to offer quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Xi Chen , Bin Cheng , Zhaokai Li , Xinfang Nie , Nengkun Yu , Man-Hong Yung , Xinhua Peng

Blind quantum computation protocols allow a user to delegate a computation to a remote quantum computer in such a way that the privacy of their computation is preserved, even from the device implementing the computation. To date, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 Atul Mantri , Tommaso F. Demarie , Nicolas C. Menicucci , Joseph F. Fitzsimons

Noise is the defining feature of the NISQ era, but it remains unclear if noisy quantum devices are capable of quantum speedups. Quantum supremacy experiments have been a major step forward, but gaps remain between the theory behind these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Adam Bouland , Bill Fefferman , Zeph Landau , Yunchao Liu

Quantum computing has the potential to provide solutions to problems that are intractable on classical computers, but the accuracy of the current generation of quantum computers suffer from the impact of noise or errors such as leakage,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Benjamin Harper , Behnam Tonekaboni , Bahar Goldozian , Martin Sevior , Muhammad Usman

Quantum computers promise considerable speedups over classical approaches, which has raised interest from many disciplines. Since any currently available implementations suffer from noise and imperfections, achieving concrete speedups for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Felix Greiwe , Tom Krüger , Wolfgang Mauerer

The noisy-storage model of quantum cryptography allows for information-theoretically secure two-party computation based on the assumption that a cheating user has at most access to an imperfect, noisy quantum memory, whereas the honest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Cosmo Lupo , James T. Peat , Erika Andersson , Pieter Kok

To successfully execute large-scale algorithms, a quantum computer will need to perform its elementary operations near perfectly. This is a fundamental challenge since all physical qubits suffer a considerable level of noise. Moreover, real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 Armands Strikis , Simon C. Benjamin , Benjamin J. Brown

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices are valuable platforms for testing the tenets of quantum computing, but these devices are susceptible to errors arising from de-coherence, leakage, cross-talk and other sources of noise. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Samudra Dasgupta , Travis S. Humble

Quantum systems, in general, output data that cannot be simulated efficiently by a classical computer, and hence is useful for solving certain mathematical problems and simulating quantum many-body systems. This also implies, unfortunately,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Keisuke Fujii , Masahito Hayashi

Noisy, intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computing devices offer opportunities to test the principles of quantum computing but are prone to errors arising from various sources of noise. Fluctuations in the noise itself lead to unstable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Samudra Dasgupta , Travis S. Humble

Although the emergence of a fully-functional quantum computer may still be far away from today, in the near future, it is possible to have medium-size, special-purpose, quantum devices that can perform computational tasks not efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Man-Hong Yung , Xun Gao

We present a quantumly-enhanced protocol to achieve unconditionally secure delegated classical computation where the client and the server have both limited classical and quantum computing capacity. We prove the same task cannot be achieved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Vedran Dunjko , Theodoros Kapourniotis , Elham Kashefi

Classical verification of quantum learning allows classical clients to reliably leverage quantum computing advantages by interacting with untrusted quantum servers. Yet, current quantum devices available in practice suffers from a variety…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Yinghao Ma , Jiaxi Su , Dong-Ling Deng

Blind quantum computation (BQC) protocol allows a client having partial quantum ability to delegate his quantum computation to a remote quantum server without leaking any information about the input, the output and the intended computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Shih-Min Hung , Tzonelih Hwang

The efficient certification of classically intractable quantum devices has been a central research question for some time. However, to observe a "quantum advantage", it is believed that one does not need to build a large scale universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Daniel Mills , Anna Pappa , Theodoros Kapourniotis , Elham Kashefi

The quest for quantum advantage, wherein quantum computers surpass the computational capabilities of classical computers executing state-of-the-art algorithms on well-defined tasks, represents a pivotal race in the domain of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Muhammad AbuGhanem , Hichem Eleuch

Noise dominates every aspect of near-term quantum computers, rendering it exceedingly difficult to carry out even small computations. In this paper we are concerned with the modelling of noise in Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Konstantinos Georgopoulos , Clive Emary , Paolo Zuliani

We propose a new composable and information-theoretically secure protocol to verify that a server has the power to sample from a sub-universal quantum machine implementing only commuting gates. By allowing the client to manipulate single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 Daniel Mills , Anna Pappa , Theodoros Kapourniotis , Elham Kashefi

Quantum computing, while allowing for processing information exponentially faster than classical computing, requires computations to be delegated to quantum servers, which makes security threats possible. For instance, previous studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yoann Marquer , Domenico Bianculli