Quantifying magic for multi-qubit operations

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DOI10.1098/RSPA.2019.0251zbMATH Open1472.81055arXiv1901.03322OpenAlexW2965824167WikidataQ92683108 ScholiaQ92683108MaRDI QIDQ5160732FDOQ5160732


Authors: James R. T. Seddon, Earl T. Campbell Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 29 October 2021

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The development of a framework for quantifying "non-stabiliserness" of quantum operations is motivated by the magic state model of fault-tolerant quantum computation, and by the need to estimate classical simulation cost for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. The robustness of magic was recently proposed as a well-behaved magic monotone for multi-qubit states and quantifies the simulation overhead of circuits composed of Clifford+T gates, or circuits using other gates from the Clifford hierarchy. Here we present a general theory of the "non-stabiliserness" of quantum operations rather than states, which are useful for classical simulation of more general circuits. We introduce two magic monotones, called channel robustness and magic capacity, which are well-defined for general n-qubit channels and treat all stabiliser-preserving CPTP maps as free operations. We present two complementary Monte Carlo-type classical simulation algorithms with sample complexity given by these quantities and provide examples of channels where the complexity of our algorithms is exponentially better than previous known simulators. We present additional techniques that ease the difficulty of calculating our monotones for special classes of channels.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03322




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