Self-testing the toric code against classical communication
Abstract
Device-independent self-testing certifies a multipartite quantum state from the correlations it produces alone, without assumptions on the inner workings of the devices. Most existing self-tests, however, break down as soon as the parties can exchange messages. We consider a relaxed setting in a quantum network, where in the honest version of the protocol, the parties never communicate, yet certification remains sound even in an untrusted case where the untrusted devices secretly exchange classical messages within a bounded distance in the network. We show that the code space of the toric code, distributed over a network with the geometry of a torus, can be self-tested in this setting in a noise-robust way, against communication up to distances proportional to the network diameter. We also develop an algorithmic method for constructing such protocols and extend our results to the surface code and cluster states, robust to one round of nearest-neighbor classical communication
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BibTeX
@misc{froes2026selftesting,
title = {{Self-testing the toric code against classical communication}},
author = {Gustavo Fróes and Amanda Wei and Carlos de Gois and Denis Rochette and Marc-Olivier Renou},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.40259},
eprint = {2609.40259},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40259},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Self-testing the toric code against classical communication
AU - Gustavo Fróes
AU - Amanda Wei
AU - Carlos de Gois
AU - Denis Rochette
AU - Marc-Olivier Renou
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/30
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.40259
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40259
AB - Device-independent self-testing certifies a multipartite quantum state from the correlations it produces alone, without assumptions on the inner workings of the devices. Most existing self-tests, however, break down as soon as the parties can exchange messages. We consider a relaxed setting in a quantum network, where in the honest version of the protocol, the parties never communicate, yet certification remains sound even in an untrusted case where the untrusted devices secretly exchange classical messages within a bounded distance in the network. We show that the code space of the toric code, distributed over a network with the geometry of a torus, can be self-tested in this setting in a noise-robust way, against communication up to distances proportional to the network diameter. We also develop an algorithmic method for constructing such protocols and extend our results to the surface code and cluster states, robust to one round of nearest-neighbor classical communication
ER -