Possibilistic simulation of quantum circuits by classical circuits
Abstract
In breakthrough work, Bravyi, Gosset, and K\"{o}nig (BGK) [Science, 2018] unconditionally proved that constant depth quantum circuits are more powerful than their classical counterparts. Their result is equivalent to saying that a particular family of constant depth quantum circuits takes classical circuits at least depth to "simulate", in a certain sense. In our paper, we formalise their sense of simulation, which we call "possibilistic simulation" or "p-simulation", and construct explicit classical circuits that can p-simulate any depth- quantum circuit with Clifford and -gates in depth . Our classical circuits use gates of fan-in .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1904.05282,
title = {Possibilistic simulation of quantum circuits by classical circuits},
author = {Daochen Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.05282},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
8 pages; v2: major revision of v1 claims due to circuit depth costing error, cf. footnote 29; v3: reverted title back to v1's, refined main theorem statement, and improved presentation; v4: added comparison to weak and strong simulation, further improved presentation