Verification Meets Calibration: Bounds and Secret-Independent State Preparation with an NV-Center as a Case Study

arXiv:2609.20219 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-08-19 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-19

Updated: 2026-08-19

Code: https://github.com/cicacica/VeriPulse

Terminology

• Fidelity — 30× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 26× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 20× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 14× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Objective Function — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 8× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace Distance — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• BQP — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Lindblad master equation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entanglement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Process tomography — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semidefinite Programming (SDP) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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