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

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Abstract

Clifford circuits are insufficient for universal quantum computation or creating t-designs with t bigger than 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 gate in the middle of a random Clifford circuit is sufficient to alter the entanglement spectrum from a Poisson to a Wigner-Dyson distribution.

Presenters

  • Shiyu Zhou

    • Boston Univ

Authors

  • Shiyu Zhou

    • Boston Univ
  • Zhicheng Yang

    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland
  • Alioscia Hamma

    • Physics, University of Massachusetts Boston
    • University of Massachusetts Boston
  • Claudio Chamon

    • Boston Univ
    • Boston University
    • Physics, Boston University