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Clifford synthesis via generalized S and CZ gates

Quantum Physics 2026-03-27 v1

Abstract

We show that any nn-qubit Clifford unitary can be implemented using at most 2n2n 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 nn. 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.

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@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