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Phys. Rev. A 77, 040303(R) (2008) [4 pages]

Quantum pseudorandomness from cluster-state quantum computation

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Winton G. Brown1, Yaakov S. Weinstein2, and Lorenza Viola1
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
2Quantum Information Science Group, MITRE, 260 Industrial Way West, Eatontown, New Jersey 07224, USA

Received 24 February 2008; published 30 April 2008

We show how to efficiently generate pseudorandom states suitable for quantum information processing via cluster-state quantum computation. By reformulating pseudorandom algorithms in the cluster-state picture, we identify a strategy for optimizing pseudorandom circuits by properly choosing single-qubit rotations. A Markov chain analysis provides the tool for analyzing convergence rates to the Haar measure and finding the optimal single-qubit gate distribution. Our results may be viewed as an alternative construction of approximate unitary 2-designs.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.040303
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.040303
PACS:
03.67.Mn, 03.67.Bg, 03.67.Lx, 05.40.−a