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Computational Power of Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases

arXiv:1611.08053 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.010504

Abstract

We consider ground states of quantum spin chains with symmetry-protected topological (SPT) order as resources for measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC). We show that, for a wide range of SPT phases, the computational power of ground states is uniform throughout each phase. This computational power, defined as the Lie group of executable gates in MBQC, is determined by the same algebraic information that labels the SPT phase itself. We prove that these Lie groups always contain a full set of single-qubit gates, thereby affirming the long-standing conjecture that general SPT phases can serve as computationally useful phases of matter.

V2: published version. Also see companion paper by R. Raussendorf et. al., submitted in parallel (arXiv:1609.07549, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.012302)

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