Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8960189 | Theoretical Computer Science | 2018 | 9 Pages |
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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Authors
Jin-Yi Cai, Heng Guo, Tyson Williams,