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Kliuchnikov, Maslov, and Mosca proved in 2012 that a $2\times 2$ unitary matrix $V$ can be exactly represented by a single-qubit Clifford+$T$ circuit if and only if the entries of $V$ belong to the ring $\mathbb{Z}[1/\sqrt{2},i]$. Later…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Matthew Amy , Andrew N. Glaudell , Neil J. Ross

We consider the problem of synthesizing Clifford quantum circuits for devices with all-to-all qubit connectivity. We approach this task as a reinforcement learning problem in which an agent learns to discover a sequence of elementary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Richie Yeung , Aleks Kissinger , Rob Cornish

During the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, it is important to optimize the quantum circuits in circuit depth and gate count, especially entanglement gates, including the CNOT gate. Among all the unitary operators, diagonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Xinchi Huang , Taichi Kosugi , Hirofumi Nishi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

This work focuses on reducing the physical cost of implementing quantum algorithms when using the state-of-the-art fault-tolerant quantum error correcting codes, in particular, those for which implementing the T gate consumes vastly more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Michele Mosca , Priyanka Mukhopadhyay

Equational reasoning is central to quantum circuit optimisation and verification: one replaces subcircuits by provably equivalent ones using a fixed set of rewrite rules viewed as equations. A finite rule set is most informative when it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Colin Blake

Circuit quantization is an extraordinarily successful theory that describes the behavior of quantum circuits with high precision. The most widely used approach of circuit quantization relies on introducing a classical Lagrangian whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Andrew Osborne , Trevyn Larson , Sarah Jones , Ray W. Simmonds , András Gyenis , Andrew Lucas

This work presents an optimization-based scalable quantum neural network framework for approximating $n$-qubit unitaries through generic parametric representation of unitaries, which are obtained as product of exponential of basis elements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Rohit Sarma Sarkar , Bibhas Adhikari

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+$T$ gate set that optimizes…

We propose a fault-tolerant implementation of the quantum Householder reflection, which is a key operation in various quantum algorithms, quantum-state engineering, generation of arbitrary unitaries, and entanglement characterization. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-18 Boyan T Torosov , Elica Kyoseva , Nikolay V Vitanov

The number of measurements necessary to perform the quantum state reconstruction of a system of qubits grows exponentially with the number of constituents, creating a major obstacle for the design of scalable tomographic schemes. We work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 U. Seyfarth , L. L. Sanchez-Soto , G. Leuchs

We investigate the generation of quantum states and unitary operations that are ``random'' in certain respects. We show how to use such states to estimate the average fidelity, an important measure in the study of implementations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christoph Dankert

We investigate the problem of synthesizing T-depth optimal quantum circuits over the Clifford+T gate set. First we construct a special subset of T-depth 1 unitaries, such that it is possible to express the T-depth-optimal decomposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Vlad Gheorghiu , Michele Mosca , Priyanka Mukhopadhyay

Executing quantum algorithms on a quantum computer requires compilation to representations that conform to all restrictions imposed by the device. Due to devices' limited coherence times and gate fidelities, the compilation process has to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Sarah Schneider , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

We search for efficient disentanglers on random Clifford circuits of two-qubit gates arranged in a brick-wall pattern, using the proximal policy optimization (PPO) algorithm \cite{schulman2017proximalpolicyoptimizationalgorithms}.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Ning Bao , Keiichiro Furuya , Gun Suer

Quantum circuits consisting of Clifford and matchgates are two classes of circuits that are known to be efficiently simulatable on a classical computer. We introduce a unified framework that shows in a transparent way the special structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Igor Ermakov , Oleg Lychkovskiy , Tim Byrnes

The classical simulation of quantum circuits is of central importance for benchmarking near-term quantum devices. The fact that gates belonging to the Clifford group can be simulated efficiently on classical computers has motivated a range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Tomislav Begušić , Kasra Hejazi , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Fault-tolerant quantum computing hinges on efficient logical compilation, in particular, translating high-level circuits into code-compatible implementations. Gate-by-gate compilation often yields deep circuits, requiring significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Alexander Popov , Nico Meyer , Daniel D. Scherer , Guido Dietl

Similar to a classical processor, which is an algorithm for reading a program and executing its instructions on input data, a universal programmable quantum processor is a fixed quantum channel that reads a quantum program…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Eddie Schoute , Dmitry Grinko , Yigit Subasi , Tyler Volkoff

Spin systems controlled and probed by magnetic resonance have been valuable for testing the ideas of quantum control and quantum error correction. This paper introduces an X-band pulsed electron spin resonance spectrometer designed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Daniel K. Park , Guanru Feng , Robabeh Rahimi , Jonathan Baugh , Raymond Laflamme

We describe how randomized benchmarking can be used to reconstruct the unital part of any trace-preserving quantum map, which in turn is sufficient for the full characterization of any unitary evolution, or more generally, any unital…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Shelby Kimmel , Marcus P. da Silva , Colm A. Ryan , Blake R. Johnson , Thomas Ohki