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Scalable Spider Nests (...Or How to Graphically Grok Transversal Non-Clifford Gates)

arXiv:2404.07828 · doi:10.4204/EPTCS.406.4

Abstract

This is the second in a series of "graphical grokking" papers in which we study how stabiliser codes can be understood using the ZX-calculus. In this paper we show that certain complex rules involving ZX-diagrams, called spider nest identities, can be captured succinctly using the scalable ZX-calculus, and all such identities can be proved inductively from a single new rule using the Clifford ZX-calculus. This can be combined with the ZX picture of CSS codes, developed in the first "grokking" paper, to give a simple characterisation of the set of all transversal diagonal gates at the third level of the Clifford hierarchy implementable in an arbitrary CSS code.

In Proceedings QPL 2024, arXiv:2408.05113

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