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Quantum circuits of T-depth one

Quantum Physics 2013-04-04 v2 Emerging Technologies

Abstract

We give a Clifford+T representation of the Toffoli gate of T-depth 1, using four ancillas. More generally, we describe a class of circuits whose T-depth can be reduced to 1 by using sufficiently many ancillas. We show that the cost of adding an additional control to any controlled gate is at most 8 additional T-gates, and T-depth 2. We also show that the circuit THT does not possess a T-depth 1 representation with an arbitrary number of ancillas initialized to 0.

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@article{arxiv.1210.0974,
  title  = {Quantum circuits of T-depth one},
  author = {Peter Selinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0974},
  year   = {2013}
}

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