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Pauli group

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The Möbius–Kantor graph, the Cayley graph of the Pauli group with generators X, Y, and Z

In physics and mathematics, the Pauli group on 1 qubit is the 16-element matrix group consisting of the 2 × 2 identity matrix and all of the Pauli matrices

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together with the products of these matrices with the factors and :

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The Pauli group is generated by the Pauli matrices, and like them it is named after Wolfgang Pauli.

The Pauli group on qubits, , is the group generated by the operators described above applied to each of qubits in the tensor product Hilbert space . That is,

The order of is since a scalar or factor in any tensor position can be moved to any other position.

As an abstract group, is the central product of a cyclic group of order 4 and the dihedral group of order 8.[1]

The Pauli group is a representation of the gamma group in three-dimensional Euclidean space. It is not isomorphic to the gamma group; it is less free, in that its chiral element is whereas there is no such relationship for the gamma group.

References

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  • Nielsen, Michael A.; Chuang, Isaac L. (2000). Quantum Computation and Quantum Information. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-63235-5. OCLC 43641333.
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  1. ^ Pauli group on GroupNames

2. https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9807006