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| author | Zongbo Bao Briët, Jop Castro-Silva, Davi van Dordrecht, Philippe Helsen, Jonas |
| author_facet | Zongbo Bao Briët, Jop Castro-Silva, Davi van Dordrecht, Philippe Helsen, Jonas |
| contents | We consider the problem of testing whether an unknown unitary is close to a specified level of the Clifford hierarchy. Bu, Gu, and Jaffe proposed a candidate tester for this task based on a connection with noncommutative analogues of the Gowers uniformity norms. The complexity of this tester -- whose analysis depends on a robust characterization of the near-extremizers of these norms -- was left open. We establish such a characterization for the fourth noncommutative uniformity norm and, as a consequence, obtain an efficient tester for the third level of the Clifford hierarchy. We further discuss possible routes toward resolving the problem of testing for all higher levels, highlighting the main barriers that remain. |
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| spellingShingle | On Clifford hierarchy testing and near-extremizers of noncommutative uniformity norms Zongbo Bao Briët, Jop Castro-Silva, Davi van Dordrecht, Philippe Helsen, Jonas Quantum Physics We consider the problem of testing whether an unknown unitary is close to a specified level of the Clifford hierarchy. Bu, Gu, and Jaffe proposed a candidate tester for this task based on a connection with noncommutative analogues of the Gowers uniformity norms. The complexity of this tester -- whose analysis depends on a robust characterization of the near-extremizers of these norms -- was left open. We establish such a characterization for the fourth noncommutative uniformity norm and, as a consequence, obtain an efficient tester for the third level of the Clifford hierarchy. We further discuss possible routes toward resolving the problem of testing for all higher levels, highlighting the main barriers that remain. |
| title | On Clifford hierarchy testing and near-extremizers of noncommutative uniformity norms |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26983 |