StabGraph

Every stabilizer state can be transformed into a graph state by means of a local Clifford unitary. stabgraph is contains the function convert that, given a stabilizer state, it finds such a graph state and the local Clifford unitary that transforms the stabilizer state into the graph state. This function follows the steps described in the article [1].

[1] Manuscript under preparation.

Installation

To install using pip:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install stabgraph

Replace python with python3 as appropriate.

Usage

import stabgraph

G , c , t , z , R = stabgraph.convert(stabs,control=None,target=None,shuffle=False) 

INPUT

stabs contains the N stabilizer operators defining a stabilizer state of N qubits. It is a list of N strings 'PPPP...', one for each stabilizer operator. Every string has N elements 'P' from the set 'I', 'X', 'Y', 'Z', that represents the set of Pauli matrices.

OPTIONAL INPUTS

control is a list of control qubits. Gives the option to set some qubits as control qubits. Qubits are labelled from 0 to N-1. It is an empy list by default.

target is a list of target qubits. Gives the option to set some qubits as target qubits. Qubits are labelled from 0 to N-1. It is an empty list by default.

shuffle can be set to be True. For a given stabilizer state there are multiple local Clifford equivalent graph states that can be obtained by this program. If shuffle=True the output graph is one of these graphs chosen randomly. shuffle=False by default.

OUTPUTS

G adjacency matrix defining the underlying graph of the graph state. It is a NxN numpy array composed by 0 and 1.

c list of control qubits labelled from 0 to N-1. The program completes the list of control qubits given as an input.

t list of target qubits labelled from 0 to N-1. The program completes the list of target qubits given as an input. A Hadamard gate is applied on every target qubit.

z list of control qubits labelled from 0 to N-1 where a pi/2 z-rotation is applied.

R invertible binary matrix representing the recombination of stabilizers performed to obtain the stabilizers of the graph state. It is a NxN numpy array composed of 0 and 1.

EXAMPLES

Bell pair

>>> stabs = ['XX','ZZ']
>>> G , c , t , z , R = stabgraph.convert(stabs)
>>> G
np.array([[0,1],[1,0]])
>>> c
[0]
>>> t
[1]
>>> z
[]
>>> R
np.array([[1,0],[0,1]])

GHZ state fixing 0 as a control qubit and 1 as a target qubit

>>> stabs = ['XXX','ZZI','IZZ']
>>> G , c , t , z , R = stabgraph.convert(stabs,[0],[1])
>>> c
[0]
>>> t
[1,2]

Steane code in the |0> logical state. Multiple graphs can be obtained, so put shuffle=True to obtain one of them randomly chosen. The result respects the selection of control and target qubits

>>> stabs = ['XXXXIII','IXXIXXI','IIXXIXX','ZZZZIII','IZZIZZI','IIZZIZZ','ZZZZZZZ']
>>> G , c , t , z , R = stabgraph.convert(stabs, control = [0], shuffle=True)
>>> c
[0,1,2]
>>> G , c , t , z , R = stabgraph.convert(stabs, control = [2, 5], shuffle=True)
>>> c
[2,5,6]

Citation

@misc{amaro2019,
  author = 	"David Amaro",
  title = 	"StabGraph",
  year = 	"2019",
  month =   "July",
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/davamaro/stabgraph}}
}