Universality in quantum computation
- 8 June 1995
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Vol. 449 (1937), 669-677
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1995.0065
Abstract
We show that in quantum computation almost every gate that operates on two or more bits is a universal gate. We discuss various physical considerations bearing on the proper definition of universality for computational components such as logic gates.Keywords
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