On-Chip Verified Quantum Computation with an Ion-Trap Quantum Processing Unit
We present a novel approach to cryptographically secure verification and benchmarking of quantum computing, demonstrating our approach on an ion-trap quantum computer. Unlike previous cryptographically secure verification protocols, which typically require quantum communication between client and server, our approach is implemented entirely on chip. This eliminates the need for a quantum capable client, and significantly enhances practicality. We perform tomography to justify the additionally required assumption that the noise is independent of the secret used to prepare the server's single-qubit states. We quantify the soundness error that may be caused by residual secret dependencies. We demonstrate our protocol on the 20-qubit Quantinuum H1-1 ion-trap quantum processing unit, using qubit measurements and resets to construct measurement patterns with up to 52 vertices. To our knowledge, these are the largest verified measurement-based quantum computations performed to date.
Authors
- Dominik Leichtle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4882-889X)
- Jonathan Miller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5807-8316)
- Cica Gustiani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0558-4685)
- Elham Kashefi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6280-9604)
- Daniel Mills (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5902-3774)
- Ross Grassie
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Université Paris Cité (FR)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
- LIP6 (FR)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-08-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/jpms-v3kw
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- UK Research and Innovation
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche