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View SchemaUniversal quantum computation and simulation using any entangling Hamiltonian and local unitaries
| Authors | Jennifer L. Dodd, Michael A. Nielsen, Michael J. Bremner, Robert T. Thew |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0106064 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0106064 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.65.040301 |
Abstract
What interactions are sufficient to simulate arbitrary quantum dynamics in a composite quantum system? We provide an efficient algorithm to simulate any desired two-body Hamiltonian evolution using any fixed two-body entangling n-qubit Hamiltonian and local unitaries. It follows that universal quantum computation can be performed using any entangling interaction and local unitary operations.
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