Gottesman-Knill theorem

English

Etymology

Named after Daniel Gottesman and Emanuel Knill.

Proper noun

the Gottesman-Knill theorem

  1. (quantum computing) A result that states that stabilizer circuits (those consisting only of gates from the normalizer of the qubit Pauli group, or Clifford group) can be perfectly simulated in polynomial time on a probabilistic classical computer.
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