Clifford synthesis via generalized S and CZ gates
Quantum Physics
2026-03-27 v1
Abstract
We show that any -qubit Clifford unitary can be implemented using at most multi-qubit joint measurements. All the multi-qubit joint measurements used for implementing the Clifford unitary can be chosen to form at most two sets of independent mutually-commuting measurements. Each of these sets is of size at most . This enables very flexible space-time trade-offs when implementing Clifford unitaries. We also discuss a version of the result that relies on multi-target CNOTs and is more relevant for targeting fault-tolerant hardware based on Quantum LDPC codes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.24731,
title = {Clifford synthesis via generalized S and CZ gates},
author = {Vadym Kliuchnikov and Marcus P. da Silva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.24731},
year = {2026}
}
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8 pages, 4 figures