Geometric approach to digital quantum information
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Publication:5916170
DOI10.1007/S11128-004-7875-2zbMath1067.68075arXivquant-ph/0312196OpenAlexW2047993395MaRDI QIDQ5916170
Rémy Mosseri, Chad Rigetti, Michel H. Devoret
Publication date: 7 April 2005
Published in: Quantum Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We present geometric methods for uniformly discretizing the continuous N-qubit Hilbert space. When considered as the vertices of a geometrical figure, the resulting states form the equivalent of a Platonic solid. The discretization technique inherently describes a class of pi/2 rotations that connect neighboring states in the set, i.e. that leave the geometrical figures invariant. These rotations are shown to generate the Clifford group, a general group of discrete transformations on N qubits. Discretizing the N-qubit Hilbert space allows us to define its digital quantum information content, and we show that this information content grows as N^2. While we believe the discrete sets are interesting because they allow extra-classical behavior--such as quantum entanglement and quantum parallelism--to be explored while circumventing the continuity of Hilbert space, we also show how they may be a useful tool for problems in traditional quantum computation. We describe in detail the discrete sets for one and two qubits.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312196
Computational aspects related to convexity (52B55) Modes of computation (nondeterministic, parallel, interactive, probabilistic, etc.) (68Q10) Quantum computation (81P68) Other types of codes (94B60)
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