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This research introduces practical protocols to detect fermionic non-Gaussianity—a critical resource for quantum advantage—using measurements native to fault-tolerant hardware. The study demonstrates that noise can paradoxically enhance these correlations while providing robust certification methods on current devices like the IQM processor. These tools are essential for validating interactions in complex systems ranging from superconductors to future quantum computers.
Practical Tests and Witnesses of Fermionic non-Gaussianity
arXiv:2605.26218v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fermionic Gaussian states describe free fermions and underlie the mean-field picture of matter, from metals to superconductors; they are also efficiently simulable on classical computers. Departures from Gaussianity -- the correlations produced by interactions -- are therefore what make a fermionic system hard to simulate classically and useful for quantum computation, analogous to the role of magic in stabilizer-based quantum computation. Yet detecting and quantifying such non-Gaussianity at scale has remained challenging. Here we introduce practical tests and witnesses of fermionic non-Gaussianity built on fermionic antiflatness, a measure derived from the two-point covariance matrix. We estimate it with two protocols -- a two-copy Bell measurement and a single-copy scheme using commuting Majorana bilinears -- that determine whether a state is Gaussian or far from it at lower measurement cost than existing approaches, using only operations native to fault-tolerant hardware. For mixed states, a purity-corrected witness certifies non-Gaussianity and remains robust under strong noise; running it on the IQM quantum processor, we find that noise can both reduce and enhance non-Gaussianity. Finally, we show that preparing pseudorandom fermionic states requires extensive non-Gaussianity. Together, these tools enable the study and certification of non-Gaussian fermionic resources on present-day quantum devices.
Abstract:Fermionic Gaussian states describe free fermions and underlie the mean-field picture of matter, from metals to superconductors; they are also efficiently simulable on classical computers. Departures from Gaussianity -- the correlations produced by interactions -- are therefore what make a fermionic system hard to simulate classically and useful for quantum computation, analogous to the role of magic in stabilizer-based quantum computation. Yet detecting and quantifying such non-Gaussianity at scale has remained challenging. Here we introduce practical tests and witnesses of fermionic non-Gaussianity built on fermionic antiflatness, a measure derived from the two-point covariance matrix. We estimate it with two protocols -- a two-copy Bell measurement and a single-copy scheme using commuting Majorana bilinears -- that determine whether a state is Gaussian or far from it at lower measurement cost than existing approaches, using only operations native to fault-tolerant hardware. For mixed states, a purity-corrected witness certifies non-Gaussianity and remains robust under strong noise; running it on the IQM quantum processor, we find that noise can both reduce and enhance non-Gaussianity. Finally, we show that preparing pseudorandom fermionic states requires extensive non-Gaussianity. Together, these tools enable the study and certification of non-Gaussian fermionic resources on present-day quantum devices.
11+13 pages, updated version with clarifications, comments welcome!
Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
arXiv:2605.26218 [quant-ph]
(or arXiv:2605.26218v2 [quant-ph] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.26218 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
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