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Clifford circuits -- i.e. circuits composed of only CNOT, Hadamard, and $\pi/4$ phase gates -- play a central role in the study of quantum computation. However, their computational power is limited: a well-known result of Gottesman and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-21 Adam Bouland , Joseph F. Fitzsimons , Dax Enshan Koh

It is known that every (single-qudit) Clifford operator maps the full set of generalized Pauli matrices (GPMs) to itself under unitary conjugation, which is an important quantum operation and plays a crucial role in quantum computation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Cai-Hong Wang , Jiang-Tao Yuan , Zhi-Hao Ma , Shao-Ming Fei , Shang-Quan Bu

There is a natural equivalence relation on representations of the states of a given quantum system in a Hilbert space, two representations being equivalent iff they are related by a unitary transformation. There are two equivalence classes,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert A. Van Wesep

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

We study locality preserving automorphisms of operator algebras on $D$-dimensional uniform lattices of prime $p$-dimensional qudits (QCA), specializing in those that are translation invariant (TI) and map every prime $p$-dimensional Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Jeongwan Haah

Starting from any proper action of any locally compact quantum group on any discrete quantum space, we show that its equivariant representation theory yields a concrete unitary 2-category of finite type Hilbert bimodules over the discrete…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Lukas Rollier

Finite-dimensional representations of the proper orthochronous Lorentz group are studied in terms of spinor representations of the Clifford algebras. The Clifford algebras are understood as an `algebraic covering' of a full system of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vadim V. Varlamov

We present a discussion of the generalized Clifford group over non-cyclic finite abelian groups. These Clifford groups appear naturally in the theory of topological error correction and abelian anyon models. We demonstrate a generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Milo Moses , Jacek Horecki , Konrad Deka , Jan Tulowiecki

We give an algebraic formulation based on Clifford algebras and algebraic spinors for quantum information. In this context, logic gates and concepts such as chirality, charge conjugation, parity and time reversal are introduced and explored…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Marco A. S. Trindade , Sergio Floquet , J. David M. Vianna

This paper develops a geometric model for coupled two-state quantum systems (qubits), which is formulated using geometric (aka Clifford) algebra. It begins by showing how Euclidean spinors can be interpreted as entities in the geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy F. Havel , Chris J. L. Doran

We construct, using the quantum dilogarithm, a series of *-representations of quantized cluster varieties. This includes a construction of infinite dimensional unitary projective representations of their discrete symmetry groups - the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-11-13 V. V. Fock , A. B. Goncharov

Quantum contextuality, a fundamental feature distinguishing quantum theory from classical models, is investigated via algebraic and topological structures inherent in modular tensor categories. This work rigorously demonstrates that braid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Tzu-Miao Chou

We show that the binary representation of the integers has a role to play in many aspects of Clifford algebras.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-13 Marco Budinich

Quantum theory may be formulated using Hilbert spaces over any of the three associative normed division algebras: the real numbers, the complex numbers and the quaternions. Indeed, these three choices appear naturally in a number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 John C. Baez

We provide a generalized definition for the quantized Clifford algebra introduced by Hayashi using another parameter $k$ that we call the twist. For a field of characteristic not equal to $2$, we provide a basis for our quantized Clifford…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Willie Aboumrad , Travis Scrimshaw

Double coverings of the orthogonal groups of the real and complex spaces are considered. The relation between discrete transformations of these spaces and fundamental automorphisms of Clifford algebras is established, where an isomorphism…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vadim V. Varlamov

Equational reasoning is central to quantum circuit optimisation and verification: one replaces subcircuits by provably equivalent ones using a fixed set of rewrite rules viewed as equations. A finite rule set is most informative when it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Colin Blake

We revisit the Pauli-Clifford connection to introduce a real, grade-preserving algebraic framework for $n$-qubit quantum computation based on the tensor product $C\ell_{2,0}(\mathbb{R})^{\otimes n}$. In this setting, the bivector $J =…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Kagwe A. Muchane

This work focuses on non-compact groups and their applications to quantum gravity, mainly through the use of tensor operators. First, the mathematical theory of tensor operators for a Lie group is recast in a new way which is used to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-27 Giuseppe Sellaroli

Classical Clifford theory studies the decomposition of simple $G$-modules into simple $H$-modules for some normal subgroup $H \triangleleft G$. In this paper we deal with chains of normal subgroups $1 \triangleleft G_1 \triangleleft \cdots…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Frederik Caenepeel , Fred Van Oystaeyen