TY - JOUR A1 - Campbell, Earl T. T1 - Catalysis and activation of magic states in fault-tolerant architectures T2 - Physical review : A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics N2 - In many architectures for fault-tolerant quantum computing universality is achieved by a combination of Clifford group unitary operators and preparation of suitable nonstabilizer states, the so-called magic states. Universality is possible even for some fairly noisy nonstabilizer states, as distillation can convert many noisy copies into fewer purer magic states. Here we propose protocols that exploit multiple species of magic states in surprising ways. These protocols provide examples of previously unobserved phenomena that are analogous to catalysis and activation well known in entanglement theory. Y1 - 2011 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36950 SN - 1050-2947 VL - 83 IS - 3 PB - American Physical Society CY - College Park ER -