{"id":224934,"date":"2025-11-12T01:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/on-chip-cryptographic-protocol-lets-quantum-computers-self-verify-results-amid-hardware-noise"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:19:57","slug":"on-chip-cryptographic-protocol-lets-quantum-computers-self-verify-results-amid-hardware-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/on-chip-cryptographic-protocol-lets-quantum-computers-self-verify-results-amid-hardware-noise","title":{"rendered":"On-chip cryptographic protocol lets quantum computers self-verify results amid hardware noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/on-chip-cryptographic-protocol-lets-quantum-computers-self-verify-results-amid-hardware-noise.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers, machines that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers on some optimization tasks and computations. Despite their potential, quantum computers are known to be prone to errors and their ability to perform computations is easily influenced by noise.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum scientists and engineers have thus been developing verification protocols, tools designed to check whether quantum computers are computing information correctly. Ideally, these protocols should also provide <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cryptographic+security\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cryptographic security<\/a>, meaning that they should ensure that the information processed by computers cannot be forged or tampered with by malicious users.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Sorbonne University, University of Edinburgh and Quantinuum recently introduced a new on-chip cryptographically secure verification protocol for quantum computers. The new protocol, outlined in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/jpms-v3kw\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, was successfully deployed on Quantinuum\u2019s H1-1 quantum processor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers, machines that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers on some optimization tasks and computations. Despite their potential, quantum computers are known to be prone to errors and their ability to perform computations is easily influenced by noise. Quantum scientists and engineers have thus been developing verification protocols, tools designed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}