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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+TT gate set that optimizes TT-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.

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@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}
}

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22 pages, 3 figures

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