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Clifford Gates in the Holant Framework

Computational Complexity 2017-05-03 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We show that the Clifford gates and stabilizer circuits in the quantum computing literature, which admit efficient classical simulation, are equivalent to affine signatures under a unitary condition. The latter is a known class of tractable functions under the Holant framework.

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@article{arxiv.1705.00942,
  title  = {Clifford Gates in the Holant Framework},
  author = {Jin-Yi Cai and Heng Guo and Tyson Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00942},
  year   = {2017}
}

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14 pages

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