The Qudit ZH-Calculus Generalised Toffoli+Hadamard and Universality

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Publication date 30-08-2023
Journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Event 20th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic
Volume | Issue number 384
Pages (from-to) 142-170
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract
We introduce the qudit ZH-calculus and show how to generalise all the phase-free qubit rules to qudits. We prove that for prime dimensions d, the phase-free qudit ZH-calculus is universal for matrices over the ring Z[e^2(pi)i/d]. For qubits, there is a strong connection between phase-free ZH-diagrams and Toffoli+Hadamard circuits, a computationally universal fragment of quantum circuits. We generalise this connection to qudits, by finding that the two-qudit |0>-controlled X gate can be used to construct all classical reversible qudit logic circuits in any odd qudit dimension, which for qubits requires the three-qubit Toffoli gate. We prove that our construction is asymptotically optimal up to a logarithmic term. Twenty years after the celebrated result by Shi proving universality of Toffoli+Hadamard for qubits, we prove that circuits of |0>-controlled X and Hadamard gates are approximately universal for qudit quantum computing for any odd prime d, and moreover that phase-free ZH-diagrams correspond precisely to such circuits allowing post-selections.
Document type Article
Note In: Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic : Paris, France, 17-21st July 2023. Edited by: Shane Mansfield, BenoƮt Valiron and Vladimir Zamdzhiev.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.384.9
Published at https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~eptcs/paper.cgi?QPL2023.9
Other links https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~eptcs/content.cgi?QPL2023
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