Wigner Function Negativity and Contextuality in Quantum Computation on Rebits

By Nicolas Delfosse, Philippe Allard Guérin, J. Bian, Robert Raussendorf. 2014

178 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Quantum computation commonly relies on qubits, but rebits---states with real density matrices---can be used as well. Researchers show how the contextuality of two-level states is necessary for quantum computation.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/bb463af82a5bfcc519ac8fde3cce5d27308bdf56

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In Artificial Intelligence

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2. David Gosset
3. Earl T. Campbell
4. Dan E. Browne
5. Mark Howard
6. Padraic Calpin
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8. Zi-Wen Liu

In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Dan E. Browne
2. Mark Howard
3. Padraic Calpin
4. Sergey Bravyi
5. David Gosset
6. Earl T. Campbell
7. M. B. Hastings
8. Bob Coecke

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