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Not all physical errors can be linear CPTP maps in a correlation space

Quantum Physics 2012-08-02 v2

Abstract

In the framework of quantum computational tensor network, which is a general framework of measurement-based quantum computation, the resource many-body state is represented in a tensor-network form, and universal quantum computation is performed in a virtual linear space, which is called a correlation space, where tensors live. Since any unitary operation, state preparation, and the projection measurement in the computational basis can be simulated in a correlation space, it is natural to expect that fault-tolerant quantum circuits can also be simulated in a correlation space. However, we point out that not all physical errors on physical qudits appear as linear completely-positive trace-preserving errors in a correlation space. Since the theories of fault-tolerant quantum circuits known so far assume such noises, this means that the simulation of fault-tolerant quantum circuits in a correlation space is not so straightforward for general resource states.

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@article{arxiv.1106.3720,
  title  = {Not all physical errors can be linear CPTP maps in a correlation space},
  author = {Tomoyuki Morimae and Keisuke Fujii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.3720},
  year   = {2012}
}

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