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Wigner function negativity and contextuality in quantum computation on rebits

Quantum Physics 2015-05-20 v2

Abstract

We describe a universal scheme of quantum computation by state injection on rebits (states with real density matrices). For this scheme, we establish contextuality and Wigner function negativity as computational resources, extending results of [M. Howard et al., Nature 510, 351--355 (2014)] to two-level systems. For this purpose, we define a Wigner function suited to systems of nn rebits, and prove a corresponding discrete Hudson's theorem. We introduce contextuality witnesses for rebit states, and discuss the compatibility of our result with state-independent contextuality.

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@article{arxiv.1409.5170,
  title  = {Wigner function negativity and contextuality in quantum computation on rebits},
  author = {Nicolas Delfosse and Philippe Allard Guerin and Jacob Bian and Robert Raussendorf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.5170},
  year   = {2015}
}

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18 + 4 pages

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