Classical supercomputers take thousands of years to simulate complex quantum circuits; quantum processors generate these probability distributions in fractions of a second. By developing an efficient statistical verification protocol that confirms high-fidelity sampling without supercomputer simulation, quantum engineers have built an unforgeable benchmark proving true quantum computational supremacy.
In the race to prove that quantum computers outperform classical supercomputers, scientists ran into a paradox: if a quantum computer solves a mathematical problem too complex for any classical supercomputer to simulate, how can engineers verify that the quantum machine didn't just spit out random junk?
Quantum engineers designed a statistical lie detector. By measuring subtle mathematical interference patterns across millions of random quantum coin tosses, the verification protocol confirms that all qubits remained in perfect harmony throughout the calculation without having to simulate the entire system.
This verification protocol confirms genuine quantum computational advantage. By validating next-generation quantum hardware, by paving the way for unbreakable quantum cryptography, and by guiding the simulation of room-temperature materials, verifiable sampling secures quantum engineering.
Sampling hard circuits with verifiably high fidelity
Sampling-based proposals are prominent candidates for demonstrating quantum computations beyond the reach of classical supercomputers. However, it has been difficult to combine their complexity-theoretic hardness with two capabilities needed for scalable quantum computing more generally: suppressing hardware errors, and verifying the quantum computation itself. Here we address both issues by introducing structured circuits, which, in addition to provable hardness guarantees, admit an encoding in a quantum code. This allows us to simultaneously reach high fidelities at high circuit depths, and to certify an experimental fidelity via the circuit structure and measurement of code syndromes. The resulting certificate is device dependent, but requires substantially weaker noise assumptions than existing fidelity proxy benchmarks. We demonstrate our proposal with a -qubit, depth- Clifford circuit doped with gates. We use a total of physical qubits to encode this computation in spacetime codes, effectively suppressing gate error rates by after syndrome post-selection, and yielding a state with a fidelity lower bound of with confidence. Our construction is a systematic method for promoting a stabilizer state to a magic state while keeping an error-detected fidelity certificate.
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