# Single T gate in a Clifford circuit drives transition to universal entanglement spectrum statistics

### Submission summary

 As Contributors: Alioscia Hamma · Shiyu Zhou Preprint link: scipost_202004_00048v3 Date accepted: 2020-12-09 Date submitted: 2020-12-02 17:18 Submitted by: Zhou, Shiyu Submitted to: SciPost Physics Academic field: Physics Specialties: Quantum Physics Approach: Theoretical

### 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.

Published as SciPost Phys. 9, 087 (2020)