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In this study, we construct the quantum reversible counterparts of the logical AND, OR, XOR, NOR, and NAND gates. We utilize a quantum Fourier transform (QFT)-based adder circuit that replicates the functionality of a digital half-adder,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Ayda Kaltehei , Murat Kurt , Azmi Gençten , Selçuk Çakmak

In 2004, Cuccaro et al found a quantum-quantum adder with $O(n)$ gate cost and $O(1)$ ancilla qubits. Since then, it's been an open question whether classical-quantum adders can achieve the same asymptotic complexity. These costs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Craig Gidney

Quantum circuits of many qubits are extremely difficult to realize; thus, the number of qubits is an important metric in a quantum circuit design. Further, scalable and reliable quantum circuits are based on Clifford + T gates. An efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 Edgard Muñoz-Coreas , Himanshu Thapliyal

Many quantum algorithms make use of ancilla, additional qubits used to store temporary information during computation, to reduce the total execution time. Quantum computers will be resource-constrained for years to come so reducing ancilla…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Jonathan M. Baker , Casey Duckering , Frederic T. Chong

We present an arithmetic circuit performing constant modular addition having $\mathcal{O}(n)$ depth of Toffoli gates and using a total of $n+3$ qubits. This is an improvement by a factor of two compared to the width of the state-of-the-art…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Oumarou Oumarou , Alexandru Paler , Robert Basmadjian

We present an efficient addition circuit, borrowing techniques from the classical carry-lookahead arithmetic circuit. Our quantum carry-lookahead (QCLA) adder accepts two n-bit numbers and adds them in O(log n) depth using O(n) ancillary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Thomas G. Draper , Samuel A. Kutin , Eric M. Rains , Krysta M. Svore

Quantum circuits of arithmetic operations such as addition are needed to implement quantum algorithms in hardware. Quantum circuits based on Clifford+T gates are used as they can be made tolerant to noise. The tradeoff of gaining fault…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Himanshu Thapliyal , Edgard Muñoz-Coreas , Vladislav Khalus

We first show how to construct an O(n)-depth O(n)-size quantum circuit for addition of two n-bit binary numbers with no ancillary qubits. The exact size is 7n-6, which is smaller than that of any other quantum circuit ever constructed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-17 Yasuhiro Takahashi , Seiichiro Tani , Noboru Kunihiro

In this paper, we present Clifford+T gates based quantum circuit design of integer division having $n$ ancillary qubits. The proposed quantum circuit is based on restoring division algorithm. The proposed quantum circuit of integer division…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-06 Himanshu Thapliyal , T. S. S. Varun , Edgard Munoz-Coreas

The AND gate is not reversible$\unicode{x2014}$on qubits. However, it is reversible on qutrits, making it a building block for efficient simulation of qubit computation using qutrits. We first observe that there are multiple two-qutrit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Christine Li , Lia Yeh

In this paper, we propose an efficient quantum carry-lookahead adder based on the higher radix structure. For the addition of two $n$-bit numbers, our adder uses $O(n)-O(\frac{n}{r})$ qubits and $O(n)+O(\frac{n}{r})$ T gates to get the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-10 Siyi Wang , Anubhab Baksi , Anupam Chattopadhyay

Among the cost metrics characterizing a quantum circuit, the $T$-count stands out as one of the most crucial as its minimization is particularly important in various areas of quantum computation such as fault-tolerant quantum computing and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Vivien Vandaele

We propose a new circuit for in-place addition of a classical $n$-bit constant to a quantum $n$-qubit integer modulo $2^n$. Our circuit uses $n-3$ ancilla qubits and has a T-count of $4n-5$. We also propose controlled version of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Dmytro Fedoriaka

Arithmetic operations are an important component of many quantum algorithms. As such, coming up with optimized quantum circuits for these operations leads to more efficient implementations of the corresponding algorithms. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Priyanka Mukhopadhyay , Alexandru Gheorghiu , Hari Krovi

Control modular addition is a core arithmetic function, and we must consider the computational cost for actual quantum computers to realize efficient implementation. To achieve a low computational cost in a control modular adder, we focus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Kento Oonishi , Tomoki Tanaka , Shumpei Uno , Takahiko Satoh , Rodney Van Meter , Noboru Kunihiro

We consider quantum circuits composed of Clifford and T gates. In this context the T gate has a special status since it confers universal computation when added to the (classically simulable) Clifford gates. However it can be very expensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-21 David Gosset , Vadym Kliuchnikov , Michele Mosca , Vincent Russo

In the recent years, reversible logic has emerged as a promising technology having its applications in low power CMOS, quantum computing, nanotechnology, and optical computing. The classical set of gates such as AND, OR, and EXOR are not…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Himanshu Thapliyal , M. B Srinivas

The multiplication of superpositions of numbers is a core operation in many quantum algorithms. The standard method for multiplication (both classical and quantum) has a runtime quadratic in the size of the inputs. Quantum circuits with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Gregory D. Kahanamoku-Meyer , Norman Y. Yao

Quantum addition circuits are considered being of two types: 1) Toffolli-adder circuits which use only classical reversible gates (CNOT and Toffoli), and 2) QFT-adder circuits based on the quantum Fourier transformation. We present the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Alexandru Paler

We consider the fundamental problem of constructing fast and small circuits for binary addition. We propose a new algorithm with running time $\mathcal O(n \log_2 n)$ for constructing linear-size $n$-bit adder circuits with a significantly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ulrich Brenner , Anna Silvanus
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