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Universal Quantum Computing and Three-Manifolds

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2018, Symmetry

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A single qubit may be represented on the Bloch sphere or similarly on the 3-sphere S 3. Our goal is to dress this correspondence by converting the language of universal quantum computing (UQC) to that of 3-manifolds. A magic state and the Pauli group acting on it define a model of UQC as a positive operator-valued measure (POVM) that one recognizes to be a 3-manifold M 3. More precisely, the d-dimensional POVMs defined from subgroups of finite index of the modular group PSL(2, Z) correspond to d-fold M 3-coverings over the trefoil knot. In this paper, we also investigate quantum information on a few 'universal' knots and links such as the figure-of-eight knot, the Whitehead link and Borromean rings, making use of the catalog of platonic manifolds available on the software SnapPy. Further connections between POVMs based UQC and M 3 's obtained from Dehn fillings are explored.

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