Securing quantum error correction against misleading advice from AI agents

arXiv:2609.19090 · quant-ph, cs.AI, cs.CR, cs.SY, eess.SY · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, cs.AI, cs.CR, cs.SY, eess.SY

Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-16

Comments: 74 pages, 32 figures (10-page main text, 62 pages of Supplemental Material, and 2 pages of references)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 222× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Entanglement — 22× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Quantization — 5× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• AI Agents — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decode — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Steering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration Failure — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Communication Overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Formal Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hypergraph — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Data — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
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• Adaptive Estimation of Drifting Noise in Quantum Error Correction
• Neural network accelerator for quantum control
• Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
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• Provably Efficient Self-Calibrating Quantum Fault Tolerance
• Efficient Algorithms for Maximum Likelihood Decoding in the Surface Code
• Correcting coherent errors with surface codes
• Hardness of decoding quantum stabilizer codes
• Hardness results for decoding the surface code with Pauli noise
• A scalable and real-time neural decoder for topological quantum codes
• Performance of quantum error correction with coherent errors
• Error-correction and noise-decoherence thresholds for coherent errors in planar-graph surface codes
• The surface code beyond Pauli channels: Logical noise coherence, information-theoretic measures, and errorfield-double phenomenology
• Designing the Quantum Channels Induced by Diagonal Gates
• Coherence in logical quantum channels
• A partition function framework for estimating logical error curves in stabilizer codes
• Decoding coherent errors in toric codes on honeycomb and square lattices: duality to Majorana monitored dynamics and symmetry classes
• Complementarity of Private and Correctable Subsystems in Quantum Cryptography and Error Correction

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