Pseudo-Random Circuits from Clifford Plus T-Gates
Abstract
We explore the implementation of pseudo-random single-qubit rotations and multi-qubit pseudo-random circuits constructed only from Clifford gates and the T-gate, a phase rotation of pi/4. Such a gate set would be appropriate for computations performed in a fault tolerant setting. For single-qubit rotations the distribution of parameters found for unitaries constructed from Clifford plus T quickly approaches that of random rotations and require significantly fewer gates than the construction of arbitrary single-qubit rotations. For Clifford plus T pseudo-random circuits we find an exponential convergence to a random matrix element distribution and a Gaussian convergence to the higher order moments of the matrix element distribution. These convergence rates are insensitive to the number of qubits.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1309.3943,
title = {Pseudo-Random Circuits from Clifford Plus T-Gates},
author = {Yaakov S. Weinstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.3943},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures