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# The Heisenberg Representation of Quantum Computers

@inproceedings{Gottesman1998TheHR,
title={The Heisenberg Representation of Quantum Computers},
author={Daniel Gottesman},
year={1998}
}
Since Shor`s discovery of an algorithm to factor numbers on a quantum computer in polynomial time, quantum computation has become a subject of immense interest. Unfortunately, one of the key features of quantum computers--the difficulty of describing them on classical computers--also makes it difficult to describe and understand precisely what can be done with them. A formalism describing the evolution of operators rather than states has proven extremely fruitful in understanding an important…
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