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Security Attacks Abusing Pulse-level Quantum Circuits

This work presented the first thorough exploration of the attacks on the interface between gate-level and pulse-level quantum circuits and pulse-level quantum circuits themselves. …

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Chuanqi Xu

Exploration of Timing and Higher-Energy Attacks on Quantum Random Access Memory

This work presents the first evaluation of timing and higher-energy attacks on Quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM) circuits. By leveraging quantum principles, QRAM can efficiently …

Yizhuo tan

Quantum Computer Fault Injection Attacks

The rapid growth of interest in quantum computing has brought about the need to secure these emerging computers against a range of security attacks. Among the potential security …

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Chuanqi Xu

Protecting Quantum Computers with a Trusted Controller

Rapidly evolving research on quantum computers brings closer reality of practical quantum computers that can solve previously untractable problems. However, as these computers …

Theodoros trochatos

Extending and Defending Attacks on Reset Operations in Quantum Computers

The development of quantum computers has been advancing rapidly in recent years. As quantum computers become more widely accessible, potentially malicious users could try to …

Jerry tan

Dynamic Pulse Switching for Protection of Quantum Computation on Untrusted Clouds

Quantum computing resources are now becoming easily accessible from various cloud providers. Although still in the Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum regime, quantum computers hold …

Theodoros trochatos

A Thorough Study of State Leakage Mitigation in Quantum Computing with One-Time Pad

The ability for users to access quantum computers through the cloud has increased rapidly in recent years. Despite still being Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) machines, …

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Chuanqi Xu

Quantum Circuit Reconstruction from Power Side-Channel Attacks on Quantum Computer Controllers

The interest in quantum computing has grown rapidly in recent years, and with it grows the importance of securing quantum circuits. A novel type of threat to quantum circuits that …

Ferhat erata

Securing NISQ Quantum Computer Reset Operations Against Higher Energy State Attacks

Enabling the sharing of quantum computers among different users requires a secure reset operation that can reset the state of a qubit to ground state |0$>$ and prevent leakage of …

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Chuanqi Xu

Exploration of Power Side-Channel Vulnerabilities in Quantum Computer Controllers

The rapidly growing interest in quantum computing also increases the importance of securing these computers from various physical attacks. Constantly increasing qubit counts and …

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Chuanqi Xu