2012

Qutrit Magic State Distillation

Anwar, Hussain, Campbell, Earl T., Browne, Dan E.

Understand

Magic state distillation (MSD) is a purification protocol that plays a central role in fault tolerant quantum computation.

  • Repeated iteration of the steps of a MSD protocol, generates pure single non-stabilizer states, or magic states, from multiple copies of a mixed resource state using stabilizer operations only.
  • Thus mixed resource states promote the stabilizer operations to full universality.
  • Magic state distillation was introduced for qubit-based quantum computation, but little has been known concerning MSD in higher dimensional qudit-based computation.

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