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Improved magic states distillation for quantum universality

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Given stabilizer operations and the ability to repeatedly prepare a single-qubit mixed state rho, can we do universal quantum computation? As motivation for this question, "magic state" distillation procedures can reduce the general fault-tolerance problem to that of performing fault-tolerant stabilizer circuits. We improve the procedures of Bravyi and Kitaev in the Hadamard "magic" direction of the Bloch sphere to achieve a sharp threshold between those rho allowing universal quantum computation, and those for which any calculation can be efficiently classically simulated. As a corollary, the ability to repeatedly prepare any pure state which is not a stabilizer state (e.g., any single-qubit pure state which is not a Pauli eigenstate), together with stabilizer operations, gives quantum universality. It remains open whether there is also a tight separation in the so-called T direction.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0411036,
  title  = {Improved magic states distillation for quantum universality},
  author = {Ben W. Reichardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0411036},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures