High-Performance Exact Synthesis of Two-Qubit Quantum Circuits
Quantum Physics
2026-01-28 v1
Abstract
Exact synthesis provides unconditional optimality and canonical structure, but is often limited to small, carefully scoped regimes. We present an exact synthesis framework for two-qubit circuits over the Clifford+ gate set that optimizes -count exactly. Our approach exhausts a bounded search space, exploits algebraic canonicalization to avoid redundancy, and constructs a lookup table of optimal implementations that turns synthesis into a query. Algorithmically, we combine meet-in-the-middle ideas with provable pruning rules and problem-specific arithmetic designed for modern hardware. The result is an exact, reusable synthesis engine with substantially improved practical performance.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.19166,
title = {High-Performance Exact Synthesis of Two-Qubit Quantum Circuits},
author = {Andrew N. Glaudell and Michael Jarret and Swan Klein and Samuel S. Mendelson and T. C. Mooney and Mingzhen Tian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.19166},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
22 pages, 3 figures