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Quantum pseudo-randomness from cluster-state quantum computation

arXiv:0802.2675 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.77.040303

Abstract

We show how to efficiently generate pseudo-random states suitable for quantum information processing via cluster-state quantum computation. By reformulating pseudo-random algorithms in the cluster-state picture, we identify a strategy for optimizing pseudo-random 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.

4 pages, 4 figures, version appearing in Phys. Rev. A

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