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Proposition: Arbitrarily small noise can destroy the certificate
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Oai279-A@1#prop:noise
For every , there is a CPTP implementation perturbation of the finite circuit at half-diamond distance at most whose output on is incorrect with probability exactly .
Proof. After the ideal circuit, apply
where flips output wire . The two branches are CPTP. The half-diamond distance from the identity is at most , by convexity and the maximum channel distance one Watrous.
In the ideal output, wire is the only one bit of the first prime entry . Flipping it changes that entry to zero while leaving the later entries positive. The resulting word is not a valid zero-padded prime list for . Thus exactly the perturbed branch is wrong, with probability .
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