Both Toffoli and controlled-NOT need little help to do universal quantum computing

  • Authors:
  • Yaoyun Shi

  • Affiliations:
  • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Venue:
  • Quantum Information & Computation
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

What additional gates are needed for a set of classical universal gates to do universal quantum computation? We prove that any single-qubit real gate suffices, except those that preserve the computational basis. The Gottesman-Knill Theorem implies that any quantum circuit involving only the Controlled-NOT and Hadamard gates can be efficiently simulated by a classical circuit. In contrast, we prove that Controlled-NOT plus any single-qubit real gate that does not preserve the computational basis and is not Hadamard (or its like) are universal for quantum computing. Previously only a generic gate, namely a rotation by an angle incommensurate with π, is known to be sufficient in both problems, if only one single-qubit gate is added.