A magic state’s fidelity can be superior to the operations that created it

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/17/2/023037zbMATH Open1452.81054arXiv1410.7808OpenAlexW3103321606MaRDI QIDQ3387643FDOQ3387643

Ying Li

Publication date: 13 January 2021

Published in: New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The leading approach to fault tolerant quantum computing requires a continual supply of magic states. When a new magic state is first encoded, its initial fidelity will be too poor for use in the computation. This necessitates a resource-intensive distillation process that occupies the majority of the computer's hardware; creating magic states with a high initial fidelity minimises this cost and is therefore crucial for practical quantum computing. Here we present the surprising and encouraging result that raw magic states can have a fidelity significantly better than that of the two-qubit gate operations used to construct them. Our protocol exploits post-selection without significantly slowing the rate of generation and tolerates finite error rates in initialisations, measurements and single-qubit gates. This approach may dramatically reduce the size of the hardware needed for a given quantum computing task.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7808

zbMATH Keywords

surface codefault tolerant quantum computingmagic state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Quantum state tomography, quantum state discrimination (81P18) Quantum channels, fidelity (81P47)

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