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Measurement-Based Quantum Computation And Symmetry-Protected Topological Order, Jacob E. Miller

Physics & Astronomy ETDs

While quantum computers can achieve dramatic speedups over the classical computers familiar to us, identifying the origin of this quantum advantage in physical systems remains a major goal of quantum information science. A useful tool here is measurement-based quantum computation (MQC), a computational framework utilizing the quantum entanglement found in many-body resource states. Not all resource states are useful for quantum computation however, so an important question is what properties of many-body entanglement characterize universal resource states, which can implement any quantum computation.

Many-body states are also studied in condensed matter physics, where the collective behavior of quantum many-body systems …