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Classical simulation of limited-width cluster-state quantum computation

Quantum Physics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We present a classical protocol, using the matrix product state representation, to simulate cluster-state quantum computation at a cost polynomial in the number of qubits in the cluster and exponential in d -- the width of the cluster. We use this result to show that any log-depth quantum computation in the gate array model, with gates linking only nearby qubits, can be simulated efficiently on a classical computer.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0601178,
  title  = {Classical simulation of limited-width cluster-state quantum computation},
  author = {Nadav Yoran and Anthony J. Short},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0601178},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure