{"id":194799,"date":"2024-08-19T11:26:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/physicists-reveal-the-role-of-magic-in-quantum-computational-power"},"modified":"2024-08-19T11:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:26:19","slug":"physicists-reveal-the-role-of-magic-in-quantum-computational-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/physicists-reveal-the-role-of-magic-in-quantum-computational-power","title":{"rendered":"Physicists reveal the role of \u2018magic\u2019 in quantum computational power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-reveal-the-role-of-magic-in-quantum-computational-power2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Entanglement is a fundamental concept in quantum information theory and is often regarded as a key indicator of a system\u2019s \u201cquantumness\u201d. However, the relationship between entanglement and quantum computational power is not straightforward. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2403.19610\">study<\/a> posted on the <em>arXiv<\/em> preprint server, physicists in Germany, Italy and the US shed light on this complex relationship by exploring the role of a property known as \u201cmagic\u201d in entanglement theory. The study\u2019s results have broad implications for various fields, including quantum error correction, many-body physics and quantum chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, the more entangled your quantum bits (qubits) are, the more you can do with your quantum computer. However, this belief \u2013 that higher entanglement in a quantum state is associated with greater computational advantage \u2013 is challenged by the fact that certain highly entangled states can be efficiently simulated on classical computers and do not offer the same computational power as other quantum states. These states are often generated by classically simulable circuits known as Clifford circuits.<\/p>\n<p>\\r \\r<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entanglement is a fundamental concept in quantum information theory and is often regarded as a key indicator of a system\u2019s \u201cquantumness\u201d. However, the relationship between entanglement and quantum computational power is not straightforward. In a study posted on the arXiv preprint server, physicists in Germany, Italy and the US shed light on this complex relationship [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}