Coherence Rather Than Error Rate Governs Privacy in Multi-Tenant Quantum Computing
Abstract
Multi-tenant computing enables providers of commercial cloud quantum processors to rent disjoint sectors of a device to independent users. Average gate error, which cloud quantum computing providers report, does not determine how much one tenant learns about another. We propose an information-theoretic notion of information leakage across co-tenancy boundaries stemming from quantum state distinguishability. We measure this leakage on commercially-available 156-qubit (IBM Kingston) and 20-qubit (IQM Garnet) devices. Boundaries with identical benchmarked error can offer significantly different amount of information leakage because standard reported measures of error are blind to coherent-versus-stochastic nature of the error while the proposed notion of information leakage is not. A uniform Pauli randomisation implemented over the victim's whole register is used as a defence mechanism to reduce the information leakage to zero. The defence theoretically does not incur a fidelity cost, but the experiments show a non-trivial degradation caused by accumulation of errors. We provide a specific call-for-action to the providers of quantum cloud computing to report information leakage in addition to standard error rates in their device datasheet to enable users to compute privacy and security risks prior to engagement with the device.
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BibTeX
@misc{farokhi2026coherence,
title = {{Coherence Rather Than Error Rate Governs Privacy in Multi-Tenant Quantum Computing}},
author = {Farhad Farokhi},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.34411},
eprint = {2609.34411},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.34411},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Coherence Rather Than Error Rate Governs Privacy in Multi-Tenant Quantum Computing
AU - Farhad Farokhi
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.34411
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.34411
AB - Multi-tenant computing enables providers of commercial cloud quantum processors to rent disjoint sectors of a device to independent users. Average gate error, which cloud quantum computing providers report, does not determine how much one tenant learns about another. We propose an information-theoretic notion of information leakage across co-tenancy boundaries stemming from quantum state distinguishability. We measure this leakage on commercially-available 156-qubit (IBM Kingston) and 20-qubit (IQM Garnet) devices. Boundaries with identical benchmarked error can offer significantly different amount of information leakage because standard reported measures of error are blind to coherent-versus-stochastic nature of the error while the proposed notion of information leakage is not. A uniform Pauli randomisation implemented over the victim's whole register is used as a defence mechanism to reduce the information leakage to zero. The defence theoretically does not incur a fidelity cost, but the experiments show a non-trivial degradation caused by accumulation of errors. We provide a specific call-for-action to the providers of quantum cloud computing to report information leakage in addition to standard error rates in their device datasheet to enable users to compute privacy and security risks prior to engagement with the device.
ER -