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Realizing universal fault-tolerant quantum computation is a key goal in quantum information science. By encoding quantum information into logical qubits utilizing quantum error correcting codes, physical errors can be detected and…

In recent years, there has been increasing collaboration between the fields of quantum computing and high energy physics, including using LHC processes such as top (anti-)quark pair production to perform high energy tests of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-04 Chris D. White , Martin J. White

We discuss the interplay between thermodynamics and magic resources in closed quantum dynamics by introducing Clifford ergotropy, the amount of extractable energy under the restriction to Clifford operations. We provide universal upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Somnath Maity , Ryusuke Hamazaki

We investigate non-stabilizerness, also known as ``magic,'' to understand criticality and exceptional points in non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems. Our focus is on parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric spin chains, specifically the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Cătălin Paşcu Moca , Doru Sticlet , Balázs Dóra

In recent years simulations of chemistry and condensed materials has emerged as one of the preeminent applications of quantum computing, offering an exponential speedup for the solution of the electronic structure for certain strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Torin F. Stetina , Anthony Ciavarella , Xiaosong Li , Nathan Wiebe

As a necessary resource for quantum computational advantage, quantum magic (nonstabilizerness) is of fundamental importance in the study of quantum computation and physics. We develop a systematic theory of \emph{long-range magic (LRM)} --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Fuchuan Wei , Zi-Wen Liu

Magic states are essential yet resource-intensive components for realizing universal fault-tolerant quantum computation. Preparing magic states within emerging quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes poses additional challenges, due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Guo Zhang , Yuanye Zhu , Xiao Yuan , Ying Li

Recently, cat states have been used to heuristically improve the runtime of a classical simulator of quantum circuits based on the diagrammatic ZX-calculus. Here we investigate the use of cat-state injection within the quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Filipa C. R. Peres , Rafael Wagner , Ernesto F. Galvão

We introduce Magic Secret Sharing (MSS), a quantum cryptographic primitive in which the secret is the computational capability of a quantum state rather than its classical description. In the resource theory of magic, non-stabilizer states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Soumyojyoti Dutta , Tushar

Recent developments in classical simulation of quantum circuits make use of clever decompositions of chunks of magic states into sums of efficiently simulable stabiliser states. We show here how, by considering certain non-stabiliser…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Aleks Kissinger , John van de Wetering , Renaud Vilmart

Determining the best attainable threshold for qudit magic state distillation is directly related to the question of whether or not contextuality is sufficient for universal quantum computation. We show that the performance of a qudit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Shiroman Prakash , Rishabh Singhal

Magic state distillation is a resource intensive sub-routine for quantum computation. The ratio of noisy input states to output states with error rate at most $\epsilon$ scales as $O(\log^{\gamma}(1/\epsilon))$ (Bravyi and Haah, PRA 2012).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Anirudh Krishna , Jean-Pierre Tillich

Stabiliser states play a central role in the theory of quantum computation. For example, they are used to encode computational basis states in the most common quantum error correction schemes. Arbitrary quantum states admit many stabiliser…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Nadish de Silva , Ming Yin , Sergii Strelchuk

The manipulation of quantum "resources" such as entanglement, coherence and magic states lies at the heart of quantum science and technology, empowering potential advantages over classical methods. In practice, a particularly important kind…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Kun Fang , Zi-Wen Liu

While quantum computers are expected to yield considerable advantages over classical devices, the precise features of quantum theory enabling these advantages remain unclear. Contextuality--the denial of a notion of classical physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 Nadish de Silva

Universal quantum computing requires nonstabilizer (magic) quantum states. Quantifying the nonstabilizerness and relating it to other quantum resources is vital for characterizing the complexity of quantum many-body systems. In this work,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Xhek Turkeshi , Marco Schirò , Piotr Sierant

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between entanglement and non-stabilizerness (also known as magic) in matrix product states (MPSs). We study the relation between magic and the bond dimension used to approximate the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 M. Frau , P. S. Tarabunga , M. Collura , M. Dalmonte , E. Tirrito

Magic states can be used as a resource to circumvent the restrictions due to stabilizer-preserving operations, and magic-state conversion has not been studied in the single-copy regime thus far. Here we solve the question of whether a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Mehdi Ahmadi , Hoan Bui Dang , Gilad Gour , Barry C. Sanders

Quantum computers have recently made great strides and are on a long-term path towards useful fault-tolerant computation. A dominant overhead in fault-tolerant quantum computation is the production of high-fidelity encoded qubits, called…

A bottleneck for analyzing the interplay between magic and entanglement is the computation of these quantities in highly entangled quantum many-body magic states. Efficient extraction of entanglement can also inform our understanding of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 ChunJun Cao , Gong Cheng , Tianci Zhou