Pretending to be Quantum: A study of IQP-based tests of quantumness

We examine the IQP protocol for verifying quantumness presented by Shepherd and Bremner in 2009 [SB09]. In this protocol, the classical verifier sends a prover an IQP circuit and expects back samples from its output distribution as evidence that the prover has quantum capabilities. To test that the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joshi, Malvika
Other Authors: Harrow, Aram
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139268