Robert Raussendorf's Quantum Information group at UBC Physics

Group members

Research

  • Quantum Information and Computation
  • QI and quantum foundations
  • Quantum fault-tolerance

QI seminar@UBC

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Research


Our work is in quantum information, specifically `Models of quantum computation' and quantum fault-tolerance. For more information click here.

Featured publication: Wigner Function Negativity and Contextuality in Quantum Computation on Rebits. [Posted May 4, 2015] We describe a universal scheme of quantum computation by state injection on rebits (states with real density matrices). For this scheme, we establish contextuality and Wigner function negativity as computational resources, extending results of M. Howard et al. [Nature (London) 510, 351 (2014)] to two-level systems. For this purpose, we define a Wigner function suited to systems of multiple rebits and prove a corresponding discrete Hudson's theorem. We introduce contextuality witnesses for rebit states and discuss the compatibility of our result with state-independent contextuality.

Journal Reference: Nicolas Delfosse, Philippe Allard Guerin, Jacob Bian, and Robert Raussendorf, Wigner Function Negativity and Contextuality in Quantum Computation on Rebits, Phys. Rev. X 5, 021003 (2015).

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Negativity and contextuality for rebits. Left: Rebit Wigner function of a three-qubit graph state. This state is local unitary equivalent to a Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state. Negativity of the Wigner function for the three-qubit graph state indicates non-classicality. Contrary to qudits in odd prime dimension, for rebits negativity is not synonymous wit contextuality. Nevertheless, the negativity in the Wigner function for the three-qubit graph state is strong enough to witness contextuality. Right: From the perspective of contextuality in quantum computation with magic states, Mermin's square and star, and all their cousins, are ``little monsters''. For explanation, see below.

State-independent contextuality, as exhibited by Mermin's square and star, provides beautifully simple proofs for the Kochen-Specker theorem in dimension 4 and higher. However, for establishing contextuality as a resource only posessed by magic states, state-independent contextuality poses a problem: If ``cheap'' Pauli measurements already have contextuality, then how can one say that contextuality is a key resource provided by the magic states? For qudits, the problem doesn't exist because there is no state-independent contextuality w.r.t. Pauli measurements. For rebits, the problem is overcome by the operational restriction to CSS-ness preserving gates and measurements.



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Group members


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Robert Raussendorf
Professor
Hennings 338, Tel.: (604) 822-3253
email: raussen[at]phas[dot]ubc[dot]ca

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Dr. Dmytro Bondarenko
Postdoc
email: dimbond[at]live[dot]com

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Dr. Polina Feldmann
Postdoc
email: polina[dot]feldmann[at]ubc[dot]ca

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Dr. Daniel Huerga (QMI)
Affiliated postdoc
email: daniel[dot]huerga[at]ubc[dot]ca

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Dr. Wang Yang
Postdoc
email: wang[dot]yang[at]ubc[dot]ca

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Arnab Adhikary
PhD student
Hennings and SBQMI

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Luis Mantilla Calderon
Graduate Student (MSc)
email: lcmantilla[at]phas[dot]ubc[dot]ca,
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Paul Herringer
PhD Student
Hennings
email: pherringer[at]phas[dot]ubc[dot]ca

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Ryohei Weil
Masters student
Hennings,
email: ryoweil6[at]student[dot]ubc[dot]ca
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Michael Zurel
PhD student
Hennings
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Former group members

Postdocs

Tzu-Chieh Wei, Associate Prof at Stony Brook University, NY, USA
Pradeep Sarvepalli, Associate Prof at IIT Madras, Chennai, India
Leon Loveridge, Associate Professor, University of South-East Norway, Norway
Raouf Dridi, 1Qbit, Vancouver
Vijay Singh, SFU Burnaby
Dongsheng Wang, Associate Professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Cihan Okay, Assistant Prof (Math), Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Students

Angela Ruthven (UBC Enginerring Physics)
Len Goff (UBC Economics)
Matthew Scholte
Cedric Lin (MIT),
Matthew Low (University of Chicago),
Philip Ketterer (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany),
Philip Allen Mar (University of Toronto),
Cihan Okay (University of Western Ontario),
Philippe Allard Guerin (2015: University of Vienna, PhD; 2020: postdoc at PI)
Jake Bian (Silicon Valley, Toronto, Imperial College London)
Navid Siami (UBC Economics)
David Stephen (2017: PhD student at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany)
Emily Tyhurst (2018: PhD student at the University of Toronto)
Andrew Elias
Hirsh Kamakari (2019: Caltech, PhD)
Joe Jackson (2019: Masters at Lancaster University, UK)
Julian Ding [2022: Undergraduate Research Thesis]
Amritabha Guha [2022: Undergraduate Research Thesis]
Aslan Zhang [2022: Undergraduate Research Thesis]

Group publications


2022 - Journal publications and preprints

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2020 - Journal publications

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2018 - Journal publications

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2015 - Journal publications

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