Closed balopat closed 2 years ago
Prior discussion on similar lines (I think): https://github.com/quantumlib/Cirq/issues/2423#issuecomment-606522903
For the record, we already support detecting arbitrary 2x2 unitaries as Clifford or not (as the fallback strategy if the _act_on_
method isn't implemented). Generalizing this to larger unitary matrices was considered too expensive at the time.
@MichaelBroughton is this resolved as of #4791?
Confirmed with Mike, this is complete.
Feature: Full Clifford group support
Problem: Currently Clifford group gates are supported via the addition of the _acton to gates in Cirq (this is a work in progress). This means only certain gates can be simulated. One could instead support the entire Clifford group via it’s specification of a symplectic matrices plus a vector describing the phases of the Pauli group. In addition this would include better support for the Pauli group and stabilizer groups to the level of supporting NISQ quantum error correction work (error mitigation)
Rough requirements: