Quantum computing with octonions (Q2290694)

There are two schools of measurement-only quantum computation. The first one uses prepared entanglement and the second one uses collections of anyons. The authors abstract the common principle behind both approaches and find the notion of a graph or even continuous family of equiangular projections. The largest continuous family is associated with the octonions and this example leads to a universal computational scheme. Adiabatic quantum computation also fits into this rubric as a limiting case.