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Stabilizer states and Clifford operations for systems of arbitrary dimensions, and modular arithmetic

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We describe generalizations of the Pauli group, the Clifford group and stabilizer states for qudits in a Hilbert space of arbitrary dimension d. We examine a link with modular arithmetic, which yields an efficient way of representing the Pauli group and the Clifford group with matrices over the integers modulo d. We further show how a Clifford operation can be efficiently decomposed into one and two-qudit operations. We also focus in detail on standard basis expansions of stabilizer states.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0408190,
  title  = {Stabilizer states and Clifford operations for systems of arbitrary dimensions, and modular arithmetic},
  author = {Erik Hostens and Jeroen Dehaene and Bart De Moor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0408190},
  year   = {2009}
}

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