Realistic Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Stabilizer States Enable Universal Quantum Computation

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Authors: Fariba Hosseinynejad, Pavithran Sridharan Iyer, Guillaume Dauphinais, David L. Feder
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Abstract

Physical Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states are inherently noisy as ideal ones would require infinite energy. While this is typically considered as a deficiency to be actively corrected, this Letter demonstrates that imperfect GKP stabilizer states can be leveraged in order to apply non-Clifford gates using only linear optical elements. In particular, Gaussian operations on normalizable GKP states, combined with homodyne measurements, permit two key primitives: clean projection onto Pauli eigenstates in the normalizable GKP code space, thereby implementing Clifford gates with high fidelity; and probabilistic projection of unmeasured modes onto non-Pauli eigenstates. These results demonstrate that normalizable GKP stabilizer states combined with Gaussian operations provide a practical framework for computational universality within the measurement-based model of quantum computation in a realistic continuous-variable setting.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Quantum many-body systems Quantum Information and Cryptography Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics

Publication details

Journal / source
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Volume
136
Issue
15
Pages
150602–150602
Publication date
9 March 2026
Language
EN