Graph states and local unitary transformations beyond local Clifford operations
Graph states and local unitary transformations beyond local Clifford operations
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DOI:
10.1088/1751-8121/aa67cd
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2016-11
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Nikoloz Tsimakuridze;O. Gühne
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作者:
Nikoloz Tsimakuridze;O. Gühne
Graph states are quantum states that can be described by a stabilizer formalism and play an important role in quantum information processing. We consider the action of local unitary operations on graph states and hypergraph states. We focus on non-Clifford operations and find for certain transformations a graphical description in terms of weighted hypergraphs. This leads to the indentification of hypergraph states that are locally equivalent to graph states. Moreover, we present a systematic way to construct pairs of graph states which are equivalent under local unitary operations, but not equivalent under local Clifford operations. This generates counterexamples to a conjecture known as LU-LC conjecture. So far, the only counterexamples to this conjecture were found by random search. Our method reproduces the smallest known counterexample as a special case and provides a physical interpretation.