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A unitary t-design is a set of unitaries that is "evenly distributed" in the sense that the average of any t-th order polynomial over the design equals the average over the entire unitary group. In various fields -- e.g. quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Huangjun Zhu , Richard Kueng , Markus Grassl , David Gross

Unitary t-designs are some of the most versatile tools in quantum information theory. Their applications range from randomized benchmarking and shadow tomography, to more fundamental ones such as emulating quantum chaos and establishing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Namit Anand , Jeffrey Marshall , Jason Saied , Eleanor Rieffel , Andrea Morello

We have generalized the well-known statement that the Clifford group is a unitary 3-design into symmetric cases by extending the notion of unitary design. Concretely, we have proven that a symmetric Clifford group is a symmetric unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 Yosuke Mitsuhashi , Nobuyuki Yoshioka

Unitary $k$-designs are finite ensembles of unitary matrices that approximate the Haar distribution over unitary matrices. Several ensembles are known to be 2-designs, including the uniform distribution over the Clifford group, but no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-10 Zak Webb

The Clifford group is the quotient of the normalizer of the Weyl-Heisenberg group in dimension $d$ by its centre. We prove that when $d$ is not prime the Clifford group is not a group unitary $2$-design. Furthermore, we prove that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-10 Matthew A. Graydon , Joshua Skanes-Norman , Joel J. Wallman

Many quantum information protocols require the implementation of random unitaries. Because it takes exponential resources to produce Haar-random unitaries drawn from the full $n$-qubit group, one often resorts to $t$-designs. Unitary…

When the local dimension $d$ is an odd prime, the qudit Clifford group is only a 2-design, but not a 3-design, unlike the qubit counterpart. This distinction and its extension to Clifford orbits have profound implications for many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Huangjun Zhu , Chengsi Mao , Changhao Yi

The Clifford group plays a central role in quantum information science. It is the building block for many error-correcting schemes and matches the first three moments of the Haar measure over the unitary group -a property that is essential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Lennart Bittel , Jens Eisert , Lorenzo Leone , Antonio A. Mele , Salvatore F. E. Oliviero

We study a scheme to implement an asymptotic unitary 3-design. The scheme implements a random Pauli once followed by the implementation of a random transvection Clifford by using state twirling. Thus the scheme is implemented in the form of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Tanmay Singal , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Unitary $t$-designs are `good' finite subsets of the unitary group $U(d)$ that approximate the whole unitary group $U(d)$ well. Unitary $t$-designs have been applied in randomized benchmarking, tomography, quantum cryptography and many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Eiichi Bannai , Mikio Nakahara , Da Zhao , Yan Zhu

We present a brief review of discrete structures in a finite Hilbert space, relevant for the theory of quantum information. Unitary operator bases, mutually unbiased bases, Clifford group and stabilizer states, discrete Wigner function,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 Ingemar Bengtsson , Karol Zyczkowski

Unitary designs are essential tools in several quantum information protocols. Similarly to other design concepts, unitary designs are mainly used to facilitate averaging over a relevant space, in this case, the unitary group…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Ágoston Kaposi , Zoltán Kolarovszki , Adrián Solymos , Zoltán Zimborás

Recent years have enjoyed a strong interest in exploring properties and applications of random quantum circuits. In this work, we explore the ensemble of $t$-doped Clifford circuits on $n$ qubits, consisting of Clifford circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Lorenzo Leone , Salvatore F. E. Oliviero , Alioscia Hamma , Jens Eisert , Lennart Bittel

The Wigner function provides a useful quasiprobability representation of quantum mechanics, with applications in various branches of physics. Many nice properties of the Wigner function are intimately connected with the high symmetry of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Huangjun Zhu

We study the formation of short-depth designs beyond the unitary group. We provide a range of results on several groups of broad interest in quantum information science: the Clifford group, the orthogonal group, the unitary symplectic…

This paper explores the representation of quantum computing in terms of unitary reflections (unitary transformations that leave invariant a hyperplane of a vector space). The symmetries of qubit systems are found to be supported by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-23 Michel Planat , Maurice R. Kibler

The Clifford algebra over the three-dimensional real linear space includes its linear structure and its exterior algebra, the subspaces spanned by multivectors of the same degree determine a gradation of the Clifford algebra. Through these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Dalia Cervantes , Guillermo Morales-Luna

The Clifford group is a fundamental structure in quantum information with a wide variety of applications. We discuss the tensor representations of the $q$-qubit Clifford group, which is defined as the normalizer of the $q$-qubit Pauli group…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Jonas Helsen , Joel J. Wallman , Stephanie Wehner

The non-linear binary Kerdock codes are known to be Gray images of certain extended cyclic codes of length $N = 2^m$ over $\mathbb{Z}_4$. We show that exponentiating these $\mathbb{Z}_4$-valued codewords by $\imath \triangleq \sqrt{-1}$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Trung Can , Narayanan Rengaswamy , Robert Calderbank , Henry D. Pfister

A complex projective $t$-design is a configuration of vectors which is ``evenly distributed'' on a sphere in the sense that sampling uniformly from it reproduces the moments of Haar measure up to order $2t$. We show that the set of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Richard Kueng , David Gross
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