Citation: De Beaudrap, Niel. "A linearized stabilizer formalism for systems of finite dimension." arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.3354 (2011).
Web: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3354
Tags: Abelian-anyons, Computer-scientific, No-go
This is the best reference for the "qudit Gottesman-Knill theorem". It is not completely clear if this is an original reference, but if not it certainly clarifies the subject a lot and presents a much more direct picture.
This paper also illuminates the connection between the Gottesman-Knill theorem and symplectic matrices.