Clifford group and stabilizer states from Chern-Simons theory

2019/03/15 by Howard J. Schnitzer, Schnitzer, Howard J.
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Operator Algebra Research #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Topological Materials and Phenomena #hep-th #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1903.06789

12 pages

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Abstract

The construction of generators of the Clifford group and of stabilizer states from Chern-Simons theory is presented for the Kac-Moody algebras SU(2)1, U(N)N,N(K+N) with N = 2 and K = 1, and SU(N)1 extending results of Salton, et. al.

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