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Cutting circuits with multiple two-qubit unitaries

Quantum Physics 2025-02-19 v4

Abstract

Quasiprobabilistic cutting techniques allow us to partition large quantum circuits into smaller subcircuits by replacing non-local gates with probabilistic mixtures of local gates. The cost of this method is a sampling overhead that scales exponentially in the number of cuts. It is crucial to determine the minimal cost for gate cutting and to understand whether allowing for classical communication between subcircuits can improve the sampling overhead. In this work, we derive a closed formula for the optimal sampling overhead for cutting an arbitrary number of two-qubit unitaries and provide the corresponding decomposition. We find that cutting several arbitrary two-qubit unitaries together is cheaper than cutting them individually and classical communication does not give any advantage.

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@article{arxiv.2312.11638,
  title  = {Cutting circuits with multiple two-qubit unitaries},
  author = {Lukas Schmitt and Christophe Piveteau and David Sutter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.11638},
  year   = {2025}
}

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(v2): 24 pages, 5 figures, published version

R2 v1 2026-06-28T13:55:16.760Z