Nonadaptive Clifford measurement pattern

ID: nonadaptive-clifford-measurement-pattern

A path graph state simulates a sequence of Clifford gates , , using fixed equatorial qubit measurement bases on successive path vertices. Let be raw outcomes, , and start the Pauli frame at . Matrix commutation and give
Induction shows the final unmeasured state differs from the ideal circuit output by , up to global phase. A final computational basis result is corrected to . All bases are fixed, and projectors on distinct vertices commute, so all measurements, including the final one, can occur in a single layer. The frame recurrence is classical outcome processing, not quantum feed-forward.

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