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"Quantum advantage of unitary Clifford circuits with magic state inputs", Mithuna Yoganathan, Richard Jozsa, Sergii Strelchuk, 2019

Reviewed August 25, 2023

Citation: Yoganathan, Mithuna, Richard Jozsa, and Sergii Strelchuk. "Quantum advantage of unitary Clifford circuits with magic state inputs." Proceedings of the Royal Society A 475.2225 (2019): 20180427.

Web: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03200

Tags: Abelian-anyons, Universal-scheme


This paper analyzes the circuit model where all inputs are initialized to magic states, and the computer is allowed to apply Clifford gates before finally measuring in the computational basis. They show that, under a variety of standard conjectures, this model is hard to classically simulate.