Single T gate in a Clifford circuit drives transition to universal entanglement spectrum statistics
Shiyu Zhou, Zhi-Cheng Yang, Alioscia Hamma, Claudio Chamon
SciPost Phys. 9, 087 (2020) · published 14 December 2020
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.9.6.087
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Abstract
Clifford circuits are insufficient for universal quantum computation or creating $t$-designs with $t\ge 4$. While the entanglement entropy is not a telltale of this insufficiency, the entanglement spectrum is: the entanglement levels are Poisson-distributed for circuits restricted to the Clifford gate-set, while the levels follow Wigner-Dyson statistics when universal gates are used. In this paper we show, using finite-size scaling analysis of different measures of level spacing statistics, that in the thermodynamic limit, inserting a single T $(\pi/8)$ gate in the middle of a random Clifford circuit is sufficient to alter the entanglement spectrum from a Poisson to a Wigner-Dyson distribution.
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See all Organizations.- 1 Shiyu Zhou,
- 1 Zhicheng Yang,
- 2 Alioscia Hamma,
- 1 Claudio Chamon