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Mana in Haar-random states

Quantum Physics 2020-12-01 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Mana is a measure of the amount of non-Clifford resources required to create a state; the mana of a mixed state on \ell qudits bounded by 12(lndS2)\le \frac 1 2 (\ell \ln d - S_2); S2S_2 the state's second Renyi entropy. We compute the mana of Haar-random pure and mixed states and find that the mana is nearly logarithmic in Hilbert space dimension: that is, extensive in number of qudits and logarithmic in qudit dimension. In particular, the average mana of states with less-than-maximal entropy falls short of that maximum by lnπ/2\ln \pi/2. We then connect this result to recent work on near-Clifford approximate tt-designs; in doing so we point out that mana is a useful measure of non-Clifford resources precisely because it is not differentiable.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2011.13937,
  title  = {Mana in Haar-random states},
  author = {Christopher David White and Justin H. Wilson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.13937},
  year   = {2020}
}
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