Clifford groups of quantum gates, BN-pairs and smooth cubic surfaces

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/4/042003zbMATH Open1156.81352arXiv0811.2109OpenAlexW4293268905MaRDI QIDQ3600526FDOQ3600526

Authors: Michel Planat, Patrick Solé 

Publication date: 10 February 2009

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The recent proposal (M Planat and M Kibler, Preprint 0807.3650 [quantph]) of representing Clifford quantum gates in terms of unitary reflections is revisited. In this essay, the geometry of a Clifford group G is expressed as a BN-pair, i.e. a pair of subgroups B and N that generate G, is such that intersection H = B cap N is normal in G, the group W = N/H is a Coxeter group and two extra axioms are satisfied by the double cosets acting on B. The BN-pair used in this decomposition relies on the swap and match gates already introduced for classically simulating quantum circuits (R Jozsa and A Miyake, Preprint arXiv:0804.4050 [quant-ph]). The two- and three-qubit steps are related to the configuration with 27 lines on a smooth cubic surface.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.2109

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

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