AN APPROXIMATELY UNIVERSAL SET CONSISTING OF TWO OBSERVABLES
Yasuhiro Takahashi · International Journal of Quantum Information · 2011
We consider the problem of minimizing the resources required for approximate universality in measurement-only quantum computation. This problem is important not only for realizing a quantum computer, but also for understanding the computational power of quantum computation. The resources we focus on are observables, which describe projective measurements, and ancillary qubits. We show that, if we are allowed to use two ancillary qubits, the set of observables { cos (π/8)X - sin (π/8)Y ,Z ⊗ X} is approximately universal for quantum computation. This is the first construction of an approximately universal set consisting only of one one-qubit observable and one two-qubit observable. Using the proof of the approximate universality, we also show that, if we are allowed to use two initialized ancillary qubits, one two-qubit observable is sufficient for graph state preparation. The use of only one two-qubit observable is optimal in terms of the number of observables available and the number of qubits to be measured jointly.