Parallel Algorithm for Simulation of Circuit and One-Way Quantum Computation Models

Tzvetan S. Metodi, Frederic T. Chong

Marcel Quanz, Korbinian Staudacher, Karl Fürlinger

In the model of measurement-based quantum computing (MBQC), computations are performed via sequential measurements on a highly entangled graph state. MBQC is a natural model for photonic quantum computing and has been shown to be useful for tasks like optimization and verification of general quantum computations. Therefore, it is often necessary to translate between MBQC and the predominantly used quantum circuit model in a fast and reliable way. While there are algorithms with linear complexity to extract quantum circuits from measurement patterns using additional ancilla qubits, efficient ancilla-free extraction has shown to be more costly. We develop strategies to parallelize an existing extraction algorithm based on ZX-calculus by exploiting the graph structure of measurement patterns and evaluate the performance on patterns obtained from a benchmark set of quantum circuits. Our results suggest that possible parallelization speedups are closely related to the graph structure of a pattern.

Raphael Dias da Silva

Robert Raussendorf, Hans J. Briegel

In this paper we present the computational model underlying the one-way quantum computer which we introduced recently [Phys. Rev. Lett 86, 5188 (2001)]. The one-way quantum computer has the property that any quantum logic network can be simulated on it. Conversely, not all ways of quantum information processing that are possible with the one-way quantum computer can be explained within a network model. As a consequence, the temporal complexity is, for certain algorithms, lower than in networks. For example, every circuit in the Clifford group can be performed on the one-way quantum computer in a single time step.

Anne Broadbent, Elham Kashefi

Robert Raussendorf, Hans J. Briegel

In this paper we present the computational model underlying the one-way quantum computer which we introduced recently [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf{86}}, 5188 (2001)]. The one-way quantum computer has the property that any quantum logic network can be simulated on it. Conversely, not all ways of quantum information processing that are possible with the one-way quantum computer can be understood properly in network model terms. We show that the logical depth is, for certain algorithms, lower than has so far been known for networks. For example, every quantum circuit in the Clifford group can be performed on the one-way quantum computer in a single step.