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Constant-cost implementations of Clifford operations and multiply controlled gates using global interactions

Quantum Physics 2022-12-02 v2 Computational Complexity Emerging Technologies

Abstract

We consider quantum circuits composed of single-qubit operations and global entangling gates generated by Ising-type Hamiltonians. It is shown that such circuits can implement a large class of unitary operators commonly used in quantum algorithms at a very low cost -- using a constant or effectively constant number of global entangling gates. Specifically, we report constant-cost implementations of Clifford operations with and without ancillae, constant-cost implementation of the multiply controlled gates with linearly many ancillae, and an O(log(n))O(\log^*(n)) cost implementation of the nn-controlled single-target gates using logarithmically many ancillae. This shows a significant asymptotic advantage of circuits enabled by the global entangling gates.

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@article{arxiv.2207.08691,
  title  = {Constant-cost implementations of Clifford operations and multiply controlled gates using global interactions},
  author = {Sergey Bravyi and Dmitri Maslov and Yunseong Nam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08691},
  year   = {2022}
}
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