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This paper introduces a new accreditation protocol for quantum computations that leverages a limited adversarial noise model, enhancing the reliability and trustworthiness of quantum computing outputs in the presence of noise.
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"Accreditation provides an efficient and scalable method for quantifying the quality of quantum computations, without trusting any aspect of the computations."
"This is a vital requirement for using quantum computers in the NISQ era [1], when quantum computations will be unreliable due to interactions with the surrounding environment - known as noise [2] - that induce erroneous operators in a computation; so some measure of whether the outputs of quantum computations are usable is needed."
"This is a “standard [assumption] in the literature on noise characterisation and mitigation” [33] and has seen extensive use in theoretical work [3, 33–42]."