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Exact two-qubit universal quantum circuit

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We provide an analytic way to implement any arbitrary two-qubit unitary operation, given an entangling two-qubit gate together with local gates. This is shown to provide explicit construction of a universal quantum circuit that exactly simulates arbitrary two-qubit operations in SU(4). Each block in this circuit is given in a closed form solution. We also provide a uniform upper bound of the applications of the given entangling gates, and find that exactly half of all the Controlled-Unitary gates satisfy the same upper bound as the CNOT gate. These results allow for the efficient implementation of operations in SU(4) required for both quantum computation and quantum simulation.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0212109,
  title  = {Exact two-qubit universal quantum circuit},
  author = {Jun Zhang and Jiri Vala and Shankar Sastry and K. Birgitta Whaley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0212109},
  year   = {2009}
}

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