We study stabilizer circuits that use non-stabilizer qubits and Z-measurements to produce other non-stabilizer qubits. These productions are successful when the correct measurement outcome occurs, but when the opposite outcome is observed, the non-stabilizer input qubit is potentially destroyed. In preceding work [arXiv:1803.06081 (2018)] we introduced protocols able to recreate the expensive non-stabilizer input qubit when the two-qubit stabilizer circuit has an unsuccessful measurement outcome. Such protocols potentially allow a deep computation to recover from such failed measurements without the need to repeat the whole prior computation. Possible complications arise when the recovery protocol itself suffers from a failed measurement. To deal with this, we need to use nested recovery protocols. Here we give a precise analysis of the potential advantage of such recovery protocols as we examine its optimal nesting depth. We show that if the expensive input qubit has cost d, then typically a depth O(log d) recovery protocol is optimal, while a certain special case has optimal depth O(sqrt{d}). We also show that the recovery protocol can achieve a cost reduction by a factor of at most two over circuits that do not use recovery.
@InProceedings{vandam_et_al:LIPIcs.TQC.2018.8, author = {van Dam, Wim and Wong, Raymond}, title = {{Two-qubit Stabilizer Circuits with Recovery II: Analysis}}, booktitle = {13th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2018)}, pages = {8:1--8:21}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-080-4}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {111}, editor = {Jeffery, Stacey}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2018.8}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-92551}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2018.8}, annote = {Keywords: stabilizer circuit, recovery circuit, magic state} }
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