Quantifying Qubit Magic Resource with Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Encoding (2109.13018v3)

Abstract: Quantum resource theories are a powerful framework to characterize and quantify relevant quantum phenomena and identify processes that optimize their use for different tasks. Here, we define a resource measure for magic, the sought-after property in most fault-tolerant quantum computers. In contrast to previous literature, our formulation is based on bosonic codes, well-studied tools in continuous-variable quantum computation. Particularly, we use the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill code to represent multi-qubit states and consider the resource theory for the Wigner negativity. Our techniques are useful to find resource lower bounds for different applications as state conversion and general unitary synthesis, in which measurements, auxiliary states, and classical feed-forward are allowed. The analytical expression of our magic measure allows us to extend current analysis limited to small dimensions, easily addressing systems of up to 12 qubits.