Homotopy Classification of loops of Clifford unitaries

MaRDI QIDQ6440551zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Roman Geiko, Yichen Hu

Publication date 16 June 2023

Abstract: Clifford quantum circuits are elementary invertible transformations of quantum systems which map Pauli operators to Pauli operators. We study periodic unitary dynamics, a.k.a. Floquet unitary dynamics, generated by Clifford circuits acting on $mathsfd$-dimensional lattices of prime $p$-dimensional qudits. We propose to use the notion of algebraic homotopies to identify topologically equivalent loops of Clifford circuits. We calculate homotopy classes of loops of Clifford circuits for any odd $p$ and $mathsfd=0,1,2,3$, and $4$. Our main tool is the Hermitian K-theory, particularly a generalization of the Maslov index from symplectic geometry. We observe that the homotopy classes of Clifford Floquet circuits in $(mathsfd+1)$-dimensions coincide with the quotient group of Clifford QCA modulo circuits and lattice translations in $mathsfd$-dimensions.

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