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Outcome determinism in measurement-based quantum computation with qudits

Quantum Physics 2023-03-13 v1

Abstract

In measurement-based quantum computing (MBQC), computation is carried out by a sequence of measurements and corrections on an entangled state. Flow, and related concepts, are powerful techniques for characterising the dependence of the corrections on previous measurement outcomes. We introduce flow-based methods for MBQC with qudit graph states, which we call Zd-flow, when the local dimension is an odd prime. Our main results are proofs that Zd-flow is a necessary and sufficient condition for a strong form of outcome determinism. Along the way, we find a suitable generalisation of the concept of measurement planes to this setting and characterise the allowed measurements in a qudit MBQC. We also provide a polynomial-time algorithm for finding an optimal Zd-flow whenever one exists.

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@article{arxiv.2109.13810,
  title  = {Outcome determinism in measurement-based quantum computation with qudits},
  author = {Robert I. Booth and Aleks Kissinger and Damian Markham and Clément Meignant and Simon Perdrix},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.13810},
  year   = {2023}
}

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16 pages + 10 pages of appendices, 1 figure

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