Solving the Quantum Verification Problem

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Continuing the discussion from Quantum Life in a Computer? Really?:

Sadly yes.

However, this excellent article on quantum verification was just published, highlighting the work of a graduate student that solved a problem no one knew if it could be solvable. The task: how do we set up a problem so a classical (non-quantum) user can figure out if a quantum computer is really doing a quantum calculation. This is a really important and open problem, until just recently. She managed to solve this during her PhD. Very impressive.

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Wow. This is really impressive. I don’t have the brain power to understand fully but it seems that she has come up with something really profound.

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