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T-count and T-depth of any multi-qubit unitary

Quantum Physics 2023-02-10 v5

Abstract

While implementing a quantum algorithm it is crucial to reduce the quantum resources, in order to obtain the desired computational advantage. For most fault-tolerant quantum error-correcting codes the cost of implementing the non-Clifford gate is the highest among all the gates in a universal fault-tolerant gate set. In this paper we design provable algorithm to determine T-count of any nn-qubit (n1n\geq 1) unitary WW of size 2n×2n2^n\times 2^n, over the Clifford+T gate set. The space and time complexity of our algorithm are O(22n)O\left(2^{2n}\right) and O(22nTϵ(W)+4n)O\left(2^{2n\mathcal{T}_{\epsilon}(W)+4n}\right) respectively. Tϵ(W)\mathcal{T}_{\epsilon}(W) (ϵ\epsilon-T-count) is the (minimum possible) T-count of an exactly implementable unitary UU i.e. T(U)\mathcal{T}(U), such that d(U,W)ϵd(U,W)\leq\epsilon and T(U)T(U)\mathcal{T}(U)\leq\mathcal{T}(U') where UU' is any exactly implementable unitary with d(U,W)ϵd(U',W)\leq\epsilon. d(.,.)d(.,.) is the global phase invariant distance. Our algorithm can also be used to determine the (minimum possible) T-depth of any multi-qubit unitary and the complexity has exponential dependence on nn and ϵ\epsilon-T-depth. This is the first algorithm that gives T-count or T-depth of any multi-qubit (n1n\geq 1) unitary. For small enough ϵ\epsilon, we can synthesize the T-count and T-depth-optimal circuits. Our results can be used to determine the minimum count (or depth) of non-Clifford gates required to implement any multi-qubit unitary with a universal gate set consisting of Clifford and non-Clifford gates like Clifford+CS, Clifford+V, etc. To the best of our knowledge, there were no such optimal-synthesis algorithm for arbitrary multi-qubit unitaries in any universal gate set.

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@article{arxiv.2110.10292,
  title  = {T-count and T-depth of any multi-qubit unitary},
  author = {Vlad Gheorghiu and Michele Mosca and Priyanka Mukhopadhyay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.10292},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in Nature Partner Journal Quantum Information. Not structured according to the journal policies. Compared to v3 : A note about implementation of 2-qubit QFT in Table 3