Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2007-06-11
Physics
Quantum Physics
12 pages; reference added to 0707.4000; minor revisions v3
Scientific paper
Certain quantum codes allow logic operations to be performed on the encoded data, such that a multitude of errors introduced by faulty gates can be corrected. An important class of such operations are {\em transversal}, acting bitwise between corresponding qubits in each code block, thus allowing error propagation to be carefully limited. If any quantum operation could be implemented using a set of such gates, the set would be {\em universal}; codes with such a universal, transversal gate set have been widely desired for efficient fault-tolerant quantum computation. We study the structure of GF(4)-additive quantum codes and prove that no universal set of transversal logic operations exists for these codes. This result strongly supports the idea that additional primitive operations, based for example on quantum teleportation, are necessary to achieve universal fault-tolerant computation on additive codes.
Chuang Isaac L.
Cross Andrew
Zeng Bei
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