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Quantum Error Correction (QEC) is the cornerstone of practical Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC), but incurs enormous resource overheads. Circuits must decompose into Clifford+T gates, and the non-transversal T gates demand costly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Archisman Ghosh , Avimita Chatterjee , Swaroop Ghosh

Topological quantum codes are intrinsically fault-tolerant to local noise, and underlie the theory of topological phases of matter. We explore geometry to enhance the performance of topological quantum codes by rotating the four dimensional…

Inspired by the close relationship between Kolmogorov complexity and unsupervised machine learning, we explore quantum circuit complexity, an important concept in quantum computation and quantum information science, as a pivot to understand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Xiaoguang Wang , Franco Nori

Electronic structure simulation is an anticipated application for quantum computers. Due to high-dimensional quantum entanglement in strongly correlated systems, the quantum resources required to perform such simulations are far beyond the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Jie Liu , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

State-of-the-art quantum computers can only reliably execute circuits with limited qubit numbers and computational depth. This severely reduces the scope of algorithms that can be run. While numerous techniques have been invented to exploit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Adrián Pérez-Salinas , Radoica Draškić , Jordi Tura , Vedran Dunjko

Finding solid and practical quantum advantages via noisy quantum devices without error correction is a critical but challenging problem. Conversely, comprehending the fundamental limitations of the state-of-the-art is equally crucial. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Yuxuan Yan , Zhenyu Du , Junjie Chen , Xiongfeng Ma

In this work, we prove that for any $m>1$, there exists a family of good qudit quantum codes supporting transversal logical $\mathsf{C}^{m-1}\mathsf{Z}$ gates that can address specified logical qudits and be largely executed in parallel.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Virgile Guémard

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a method of choice to solve the electronic structure problem for molecules on near-term gate-based quantum computers. However, the circuit depth is expected to grow significantly with problem…

A fundamental problem in quantum engineering is determining the lowest time required to ensure that all possible unitaries can be generated with the tools available, which is one of a number of possible quantum speed limits. We examine this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Mattias T. Johnsson , Lauritz van Luijk , Daniel Burgarth

We demonstrate that the unbounded fan-out gate is very powerful. Constant-depth polynomial-size quantum circuits with bounded fan-in and unbounded fan-out over a fixed basis (denoted by QNCf^0) can approximate with polynomially small error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Peter Hoyer , Robert Spalek

We prove several theorems characterizing the existence of homological error correction codes both classically and quantumly. Not every classical code is homological, but we find a family of classical homological codes saturating the Hamming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Bombin , M. A. Martin-Delgado

A major line of questions in quantum information and computing asks how quickly locally random circuits converge to resemble global randomness. In particular, approximate k-designs are random unitary ensembles that resemble random circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Nicholas Laracuente

We introduce the first minimal and complete equational theory for quantum circuits. Hence, we show that any true equation on quantum circuits can be derived from simple rules, all of them being standard except a novel but intuitive one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Alexandre Clément , Noé Delorme , Simon Perdrix

A new bound on the minimum distance of q-ary cyclic codes is proposed. It is based on the description by another cyclic code with small minimum distance. The connection to the BCH bound and the Hartmann--Tzeng (HT) bound is formulated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Alexander Zeh , Sergey Bezzateev

The multiplicative depth of a logic network over the gate basis $\{\land, \oplus, \neg\}$ is the largest number of $\land$ gates on any path from a primary input to a primary output in the network. We describe a dynamic programming based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Thomas Häner , Mathias Soeken

The Quantum State Preparation problem aims to prepare an $n$-qubit quantum state $|\psi_v\rangle =\sum_{k=0}^{2^n-1}v_k|k\rangle$ from the initial state $|0\rangle^{\otimes n}$, for a given unit vector $v=(v_0,v_1,v_2,\ldots,v_{2^n-1})^T\in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Xiaoming Sun , Guojing Tian , Shuai Yang , Pei Yuan , Shengyu Zhang

Compiling a high-level quantum circuit down to a low-level description that can be executed on state-of-the-art quantum computers is a crucial part of the software stack for quantum computing. One step in compiling a quantum circuit to some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Tom Peham , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

The computational complexity of $\mathsf{QAC}^0$, which are constant-depth, polynomial-size quantum circuit families consisting of arbitrary single-qubit unitaries and $n$-qubit generalized Toffoli gates, has gained tremendous focus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Yangjing Dong , Fengning Ou , Penghui Yao

Decoherence -- in the current physical implementations of quantum computers -- makes depth reduction a vital task in quantum-circuit design. Moore and Nilsson (SIAM Journal of Computing, 2001) demonstrated that additional qubits -- known as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Jiaqing Jiang , Xiaoming Sun , Shang-Hua Teng , Bujiao Wu , Kewen Wu , Jialin Zhang

The conventional approach to understanding the characteristics of an unknown quantum state involves having numerous identical independent copies of the system in that state. However, we demonstrate that gleaning insights into specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Nengkun Yu