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AND-gates in ZX-calculus: Spider Nest Identities and QBC-completeness

Quantum Physics 2021-09-07 v3

Abstract

In this paper we exploit the utility of the triangle symbol which has a complicated expression in terms of spider diagrams in ZX-calculus, and its role within the ZX-representation of AND-gates in particular. First, we derive spider nest identities which are of key importance to recent developments in quantum circuit optimisation and T-count reduction in particular. Then, using the same rule set, we prove a completeness theorem for quantum Boolean circuits (QBCs) whose rewriting rules can be directly used for a new method of T-count reduction. We give an algorithm based on this method and show that the results of our algorithm outperform the results of all the previous best non-probabilistic algorithms.

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@article{arxiv.1910.06818,
  title  = {AND-gates in ZX-calculus: Spider Nest Identities and QBC-completeness},
  author = {Anthony Munson and Bob Coecke and Quanlong Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.06818},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

In Proceedings QPL 2020, arXiv:2109.01534