What circuit or operation corresponds to the tensor product?

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What Clifford gate circuit operating on states $|psi_1rangle$ and $|psi_2rangle$ prepares the state $|Psirangle=|psi_1rangle otimes |psi_2rangle$ ?










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          I think that you misunderstood the concept of tensor product here. There is no need of a Clifford gate in order to have a multi-qubit system. The fact that a multi-qubit system is described by the tensor produt of their state vectors comes from the fourth postulate of quantum mechanics, refer to the $94^th$ page of Nielsen and Chuang to see the formulation of this postulate.



          Consequently, what I mean here is that if you have two qubits represented by state vectors $|psi_1rangle$ and $|psi_2rangle$, the tensor product is the mathematical operation that describes the composite state of the 2-qubit sytem $|Psirangle$. This something known by postulates, and so there is no need to use any Clifford gate to obtain that.



          Clifford gates for example could be used if you have state $|Psirangle=|psi_1rangleotimes |psi_2rangle$ and you want to obtain another state $|Psi'rangle$, then the transformation would be given by some Clifford group unitary so that $|Psi'rangle=U|Psirangle$. However, in order to calculate such unitary, the initial states should be needed, and so here no more can be said.






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            There is no circuit operation or Clifford gate! If you have $|psi_1rangle$ and $|psi_2rangle$ entering a circuit, then mathematically we say that:
            $$
            |psi_1rangle otimes |psi_2rangle
            $$



            is entering the circuit.



            This means if you represent the whole circuit as a unitary matrix $U$, it will have a dimension corresponding to the size of $|psi_1rangle otimes |psi_2rangle$, not of $|psi_1rangle$ or $|psi_2rangle$. Your output is literally the matrix-vector product:



            $$
            Uleft(left|psi_1rightrangle otimes |psi_2rangleright),
            $$



            even without using any extra Clifford gates!






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              The tensor product is not a gate, but rather a way for us as humans to model the behavior of a quantum system. Whenever we're using multiple qbits, we can look at them in two ways: in their product state (a complex vector of size $2^n$ for $n$ qbits) or their individual state ($|psi_0rangle otimes ldots otimes |psi_n-1rangle$). We can usually switch back and forth between the two representations at will (again, they are two equivalent ways of writing the same quantum state) except for when the qbits become entangled, in which case we cannot factor them back into the individual state (this is roughly the definition of entanglement).



              When you're just learning quantum computing and are writing out matrices & vectors explicitly, you usually use the product state to calculate the action of an operator on the quantum state, then factor the result back into the individual state to see the action of that operator on the individual qbits. So for example, if we want to calculate the action of CNOT on $|10rangle$ with leftmost qbit as control:



              $C|10rangle = C beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix otimes beginbmatrix 1 \ 0 endbmatrix =
              beginbmatrix
              1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \
              0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \
              0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \
              0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \
              endbmatrix
              beginbmatrix 0 \ 0 \ 1 \ 0 endbmatrix =
              beginbmatrix 0 \ 0 \ 0 \ 1 endbmatrix =
              beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix otimes beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix
              = |11rangle$



              So we see that CNOT on $|10rangle$ flipped the rightmost qbit to $|11rangle$ as expected, because the control (leftmost) qbit was $1$.



              Here's an entangled product state which cannot be factored into its individual state:



              $C_1,0H_1|00rangle = beginbmatrix frac1sqrt2 \ 0 \ 0 \ frac1sqrt2 endbmatrix$



              If you try to factor that out into the tensor product of two qbits, you will see you cannot.






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                To put another way, the circuit is just



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                As everyone else said, the tensor product is just the way of constructing a composite quantum system from smaller subsystems, and doesn't require gates as such. But ordering is important, $|psi_1rangleotimes|psi_2rangleneq |psi_2rangleotimes|psi_1rangle$, and there is a standard correspondence in quantum circuits between the first item in the tensor product being on the top wire.






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                  I think that you misunderstood the concept of tensor product here. There is no need of a Clifford gate in order to have a multi-qubit system. The fact that a multi-qubit system is described by the tensor produt of their state vectors comes from the fourth postulate of quantum mechanics, refer to the $94^th$ page of Nielsen and Chuang to see the formulation of this postulate.



                  Consequently, what I mean here is that if you have two qubits represented by state vectors $|psi_1rangle$ and $|psi_2rangle$, the tensor product is the mathematical operation that describes the composite state of the 2-qubit sytem $|Psirangle$. This something known by postulates, and so there is no need to use any Clifford gate to obtain that.



                  Clifford gates for example could be used if you have state $|Psirangle=|psi_1rangleotimes |psi_2rangle$ and you want to obtain another state $|Psi'rangle$, then the transformation would be given by some Clifford group unitary so that $|Psi'rangle=U|Psirangle$. However, in order to calculate such unitary, the initial states should be needed, and so here no more can be said.






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                    I think that you misunderstood the concept of tensor product here. There is no need of a Clifford gate in order to have a multi-qubit system. The fact that a multi-qubit system is described by the tensor produt of their state vectors comes from the fourth postulate of quantum mechanics, refer to the $94^th$ page of Nielsen and Chuang to see the formulation of this postulate.



                    Consequently, what I mean here is that if you have two qubits represented by state vectors $|psi_1rangle$ and $|psi_2rangle$, the tensor product is the mathematical operation that describes the composite state of the 2-qubit sytem $|Psirangle$. This something known by postulates, and so there is no need to use any Clifford gate to obtain that.



                    Clifford gates for example could be used if you have state $|Psirangle=|psi_1rangleotimes |psi_2rangle$ and you want to obtain another state $|Psi'rangle$, then the transformation would be given by some Clifford group unitary so that $|Psi'rangle=U|Psirangle$. However, in order to calculate such unitary, the initial states should be needed, and so here no more can be said.






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                      I think that you misunderstood the concept of tensor product here. There is no need of a Clifford gate in order to have a multi-qubit system. The fact that a multi-qubit system is described by the tensor produt of their state vectors comes from the fourth postulate of quantum mechanics, refer to the $94^th$ page of Nielsen and Chuang to see the formulation of this postulate.



                      Consequently, what I mean here is that if you have two qubits represented by state vectors $|psi_1rangle$ and $|psi_2rangle$, the tensor product is the mathematical operation that describes the composite state of the 2-qubit sytem $|Psirangle$. This something known by postulates, and so there is no need to use any Clifford gate to obtain that.



                      Clifford gates for example could be used if you have state $|Psirangle=|psi_1rangleotimes |psi_2rangle$ and you want to obtain another state $|Psi'rangle$, then the transformation would be given by some Clifford group unitary so that $|Psi'rangle=U|Psirangle$. However, in order to calculate such unitary, the initial states should be needed, and so here no more can be said.






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                      I think that you misunderstood the concept of tensor product here. There is no need of a Clifford gate in order to have a multi-qubit system. The fact that a multi-qubit system is described by the tensor produt of their state vectors comes from the fourth postulate of quantum mechanics, refer to the $94^th$ page of Nielsen and Chuang to see the formulation of this postulate.



                      Consequently, what I mean here is that if you have two qubits represented by state vectors $|psi_1rangle$ and $|psi_2rangle$, the tensor product is the mathematical operation that describes the composite state of the 2-qubit sytem $|Psirangle$. This something known by postulates, and so there is no need to use any Clifford gate to obtain that.



                      Clifford gates for example could be used if you have state $|Psirangle=|psi_1rangleotimes |psi_2rangle$ and you want to obtain another state $|Psi'rangle$, then the transformation would be given by some Clifford group unitary so that $|Psi'rangle=U|Psirangle$. However, in order to calculate such unitary, the initial states should be needed, and so here no more can be said.







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                          There is no circuit operation or Clifford gate! If you have $|psi_1rangle$ and $|psi_2rangle$ entering a circuit, then mathematically we say that:
                          $$
                          |psi_1rangle otimes |psi_2rangle
                          $$



                          is entering the circuit.



                          This means if you represent the whole circuit as a unitary matrix $U$, it will have a dimension corresponding to the size of $|psi_1rangle otimes |psi_2rangle$, not of $|psi_1rangle$ or $|psi_2rangle$. Your output is literally the matrix-vector product:



                          $$
                          Uleft(left|psi_1rightrangle otimes |psi_2rangleright),
                          $$



                          even without using any extra Clifford gates!






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                            There is no circuit operation or Clifford gate! If you have $|psi_1rangle$ and $|psi_2rangle$ entering a circuit, then mathematically we say that:
                            $$
                            |psi_1rangle otimes |psi_2rangle
                            $$



                            is entering the circuit.



                            This means if you represent the whole circuit as a unitary matrix $U$, it will have a dimension corresponding to the size of $|psi_1rangle otimes |psi_2rangle$, not of $|psi_1rangle$ or $|psi_2rangle$. Your output is literally the matrix-vector product:



                            $$
                            Uleft(left|psi_1rightrangle otimes |psi_2rangleright),
                            $$



                            even without using any extra Clifford gates!






                            share|improve this answer










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                            G Fleming is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
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                              There is no circuit operation or Clifford gate! If you have $|psi_1rangle$ and $|psi_2rangle$ entering a circuit, then mathematically we say that:
                              $$
                              |psi_1rangle otimes |psi_2rangle
                              $$



                              is entering the circuit.



                              This means if you represent the whole circuit as a unitary matrix $U$, it will have a dimension corresponding to the size of $|psi_1rangle otimes |psi_2rangle$, not of $|psi_1rangle$ or $|psi_2rangle$. Your output is literally the matrix-vector product:



                              $$
                              Uleft(left|psi_1rightrangle otimes |psi_2rangleright),
                              $$



                              even without using any extra Clifford gates!






                              share|improve this answer










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                              G Fleming is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
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                              There is no circuit operation or Clifford gate! If you have $|psi_1rangle$ and $|psi_2rangle$ entering a circuit, then mathematically we say that:
                              $$
                              |psi_1rangle otimes |psi_2rangle
                              $$



                              is entering the circuit.



                              This means if you represent the whole circuit as a unitary matrix $U$, it will have a dimension corresponding to the size of $|psi_1rangle otimes |psi_2rangle$, not of $|psi_1rangle$ or $|psi_2rangle$. Your output is literally the matrix-vector product:



                              $$
                              Uleft(left|psi_1rightrangle otimes |psi_2rangleright),
                              $$



                              even without using any extra Clifford gates!







                              share|improve this answer










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                                  The tensor product is not a gate, but rather a way for us as humans to model the behavior of a quantum system. Whenever we're using multiple qbits, we can look at them in two ways: in their product state (a complex vector of size $2^n$ for $n$ qbits) or their individual state ($|psi_0rangle otimes ldots otimes |psi_n-1rangle$). We can usually switch back and forth between the two representations at will (again, they are two equivalent ways of writing the same quantum state) except for when the qbits become entangled, in which case we cannot factor them back into the individual state (this is roughly the definition of entanglement).



                                  When you're just learning quantum computing and are writing out matrices & vectors explicitly, you usually use the product state to calculate the action of an operator on the quantum state, then factor the result back into the individual state to see the action of that operator on the individual qbits. So for example, if we want to calculate the action of CNOT on $|10rangle$ with leftmost qbit as control:



                                  $C|10rangle = C beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix otimes beginbmatrix 1 \ 0 endbmatrix =
                                  beginbmatrix
                                  1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \
                                  0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \
                                  0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \
                                  0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \
                                  endbmatrix
                                  beginbmatrix 0 \ 0 \ 1 \ 0 endbmatrix =
                                  beginbmatrix 0 \ 0 \ 0 \ 1 endbmatrix =
                                  beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix otimes beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix
                                  = |11rangle$



                                  So we see that CNOT on $|10rangle$ flipped the rightmost qbit to $|11rangle$ as expected, because the control (leftmost) qbit was $1$.



                                  Here's an entangled product state which cannot be factored into its individual state:



                                  $C_1,0H_1|00rangle = beginbmatrix frac1sqrt2 \ 0 \ 0 \ frac1sqrt2 endbmatrix$



                                  If you try to factor that out into the tensor product of two qbits, you will see you cannot.






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                                    The tensor product is not a gate, but rather a way for us as humans to model the behavior of a quantum system. Whenever we're using multiple qbits, we can look at them in two ways: in their product state (a complex vector of size $2^n$ for $n$ qbits) or their individual state ($|psi_0rangle otimes ldots otimes |psi_n-1rangle$). We can usually switch back and forth between the two representations at will (again, they are two equivalent ways of writing the same quantum state) except for when the qbits become entangled, in which case we cannot factor them back into the individual state (this is roughly the definition of entanglement).



                                    When you're just learning quantum computing and are writing out matrices & vectors explicitly, you usually use the product state to calculate the action of an operator on the quantum state, then factor the result back into the individual state to see the action of that operator on the individual qbits. So for example, if we want to calculate the action of CNOT on $|10rangle$ with leftmost qbit as control:



                                    $C|10rangle = C beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix otimes beginbmatrix 1 \ 0 endbmatrix =
                                    beginbmatrix
                                    1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \
                                    0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \
                                    0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \
                                    0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \
                                    endbmatrix
                                    beginbmatrix 0 \ 0 \ 1 \ 0 endbmatrix =
                                    beginbmatrix 0 \ 0 \ 0 \ 1 endbmatrix =
                                    beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix otimes beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix
                                    = |11rangle$



                                    So we see that CNOT on $|10rangle$ flipped the rightmost qbit to $|11rangle$ as expected, because the control (leftmost) qbit was $1$.



                                    Here's an entangled product state which cannot be factored into its individual state:



                                    $C_1,0H_1|00rangle = beginbmatrix frac1sqrt2 \ 0 \ 0 \ frac1sqrt2 endbmatrix$



                                    If you try to factor that out into the tensor product of two qbits, you will see you cannot.






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                                      The tensor product is not a gate, but rather a way for us as humans to model the behavior of a quantum system. Whenever we're using multiple qbits, we can look at them in two ways: in their product state (a complex vector of size $2^n$ for $n$ qbits) or their individual state ($|psi_0rangle otimes ldots otimes |psi_n-1rangle$). We can usually switch back and forth between the two representations at will (again, they are two equivalent ways of writing the same quantum state) except for when the qbits become entangled, in which case we cannot factor them back into the individual state (this is roughly the definition of entanglement).



                                      When you're just learning quantum computing and are writing out matrices & vectors explicitly, you usually use the product state to calculate the action of an operator on the quantum state, then factor the result back into the individual state to see the action of that operator on the individual qbits. So for example, if we want to calculate the action of CNOT on $|10rangle$ with leftmost qbit as control:



                                      $C|10rangle = C beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix otimes beginbmatrix 1 \ 0 endbmatrix =
                                      beginbmatrix
                                      1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \
                                      0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \
                                      0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \
                                      0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \
                                      endbmatrix
                                      beginbmatrix 0 \ 0 \ 1 \ 0 endbmatrix =
                                      beginbmatrix 0 \ 0 \ 0 \ 1 endbmatrix =
                                      beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix otimes beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix
                                      = |11rangle$



                                      So we see that CNOT on $|10rangle$ flipped the rightmost qbit to $|11rangle$ as expected, because the control (leftmost) qbit was $1$.



                                      Here's an entangled product state which cannot be factored into its individual state:



                                      $C_1,0H_1|00rangle = beginbmatrix frac1sqrt2 \ 0 \ 0 \ frac1sqrt2 endbmatrix$



                                      If you try to factor that out into the tensor product of two qbits, you will see you cannot.






                                      share|improve this answer












                                      The tensor product is not a gate, but rather a way for us as humans to model the behavior of a quantum system. Whenever we're using multiple qbits, we can look at them in two ways: in their product state (a complex vector of size $2^n$ for $n$ qbits) or their individual state ($|psi_0rangle otimes ldots otimes |psi_n-1rangle$). We can usually switch back and forth between the two representations at will (again, they are two equivalent ways of writing the same quantum state) except for when the qbits become entangled, in which case we cannot factor them back into the individual state (this is roughly the definition of entanglement).



                                      When you're just learning quantum computing and are writing out matrices & vectors explicitly, you usually use the product state to calculate the action of an operator on the quantum state, then factor the result back into the individual state to see the action of that operator on the individual qbits. So for example, if we want to calculate the action of CNOT on $|10rangle$ with leftmost qbit as control:



                                      $C|10rangle = C beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix otimes beginbmatrix 1 \ 0 endbmatrix =
                                      beginbmatrix
                                      1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \
                                      0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \
                                      0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \
                                      0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \
                                      endbmatrix
                                      beginbmatrix 0 \ 0 \ 1 \ 0 endbmatrix =
                                      beginbmatrix 0 \ 0 \ 0 \ 1 endbmatrix =
                                      beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix otimes beginbmatrix 0 \ 1 endbmatrix
                                      = |11rangle$



                                      So we see that CNOT on $|10rangle$ flipped the rightmost qbit to $|11rangle$ as expected, because the control (leftmost) qbit was $1$.



                                      Here's an entangled product state which cannot be factored into its individual state:



                                      $C_1,0H_1|00rangle = beginbmatrix frac1sqrt2 \ 0 \ 0 \ frac1sqrt2 endbmatrix$



                                      If you try to factor that out into the tensor product of two qbits, you will see you cannot.







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                                          To put another way, the circuit is just



                                          enter image description here



                                          As everyone else said, the tensor product is just the way of constructing a composite quantum system from smaller subsystems, and doesn't require gates as such. But ordering is important, $|psi_1rangleotimes|psi_2rangleneq |psi_2rangleotimes|psi_1rangle$, and there is a standard correspondence in quantum circuits between the first item in the tensor product being on the top wire.






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                                            To put another way, the circuit is just



                                            enter image description here



                                            As everyone else said, the tensor product is just the way of constructing a composite quantum system from smaller subsystems, and doesn't require gates as such. But ordering is important, $|psi_1rangleotimes|psi_2rangleneq |psi_2rangleotimes|psi_1rangle$, and there is a standard correspondence in quantum circuits between the first item in the tensor product being on the top wire.






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                                              To put another way, the circuit is just



                                              enter image description here



                                              As everyone else said, the tensor product is just the way of constructing a composite quantum system from smaller subsystems, and doesn't require gates as such. But ordering is important, $|psi_1rangleotimes|psi_2rangleneq |psi_2rangleotimes|psi_1rangle$, and there is a standard correspondence in quantum circuits between the first item in the tensor product being on the top wire.






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                                              To put another way, the circuit is just



                                              enter image description here



                                              As everyone else said, the tensor product is just the way of constructing a composite quantum system from smaller subsystems, and doesn't require gates as such. But ordering is important, $|psi_1rangleotimes|psi_2rangleneq |psi_2rangleotimes|psi_1rangle$, and there is a standard correspondence in quantum circuits between the first item in the tensor product being on the top wire.







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