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Counting single-qubit Clifford equivalent graph states is #P-Complete

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arxiv 1907.08024 v1 pith:QOXQFCRU submitted 2019-07-18 quant-ph cs.CCmath.CO

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Graph states, which include for example Bell states, GHZ states and cluster states, form a well-known class of quantum states with applications ranging from quantum networks to error-correction. Deciding whether two graph states are equivalent up to single-qubit Clifford operations is known to be decidable in polynomial time and have been studied both in the context of producing certain required states in a quantum network but also in relation to stabilizer codes. The reason for the latter this is that single-qubit Clifford equivalent graph states exactly corresponds to equivalent stabilizer codes. We here consider the computational complexity of, given a graph state |G>, counting the number of graph states, single-qubit Clifford equivalent to |G>. We show that this problem is #P-Complete. To prove our main result we make use of the notion of isotropic systems in graph theory. We review the definition of isotropic systems and point out their strong relation to graph states. We believe that these isotropic systems can be useful beyond the results presented in this paper.

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    Graph states are LU-equivalent if and only if they are linked by r-local complementations for some integer r; LU-equivalence is decidable in quasi-polynomial time, and LU=LC holds on at most 19 qubits.

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