Condensed Encodings of Projective Clifford Operations in Arbitrary Dimension

2024/07/23 by Winnick, Sam, Paykin, Jennifer
#FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2407.16861

Abstract

We provide a careful analysis of the structure theorem for the n-qudit projective Clifford group and various encoding schemes for its elements. In particular, we derive formulas for evaluation, composition, and inversion. Our results apply to all integers d≥2, most notably the even case.

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