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Quantum hashing with the icosahedral group

Quantum Physics 2015-03-13 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study an efficient algorithm to hash any single qubit gate (or unitary matrix) into a braid of Fibonacci anyons represented by a product of icosahedral group elements. By representing the group elements by braid segments of different lengths, we introduce a series of pseudo-groups. Joining these braid segments in a renormalization group fashion, we obtain a Gaussian unitary ensemble of random-matrix representations of braids. With braids of length O[log(1/epsilon)], we can approximate all SU(2) matrices to an average error epsilon with a cost of O[log(1/epsilon)] in time. The algorithm is applicable to generic quantum compiling.

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@article{arxiv.0903.1497,
  title  = {Quantum hashing with the icosahedral group},
  author = {Michele Burrello and Haitan Xu and Giuseppe Mussardo and Xin Wan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.1497},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures; revised version, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.

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