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Quantum circuit simulation is paramount to the verification and optimization of quantum algorithms, and considerable research efforts have been made towards efficient simulators. While circuits often contain high-level gates such as oracles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Adam Husted Kjelstrøm , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Jaco van de Pol

Quantum computing has shown tremendous promise in addressing complex computational problems, yet its practical realization is hindered by the limited availability of qubits for computation. Recent advancements in quantum hardware have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Kun Fang , Munan Zhang , Ruqi Shi , Yinan Li

We present an asymptotically improved algorithm for implementing the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) in both the exact and approximate settings. Historically, the approximate QFT has been implemented in $\Theta(n \log n)$ gates, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Ronit Shah

We show the applicability of the Cartan decomposition of Lie algebras to quantum circuits. This approach can be used to synthesize circuits that can efficiently implement any desired unitary operation. Our method finds explicit quantum…

A large-scale quantum circuit can be partitioned into multiple subcircuits through circuit cutting, where each subcircuit is executed multiple times and the expectation value of the original circuit is reconstructed by classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Ryota Tamura , Tomoya Kashimata , Yohei Hamakawa , Kosuke Tatsumura , Hiroshi Imai

High-fidelity and robust quantum manipulation is the key for scalable quantum computation. Therefore, due to the intrinsic operational robustness, quantum manipulation induced by geometric phases is one of the promising candidates. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Tao Chen , Pu Shen , Zheng-Yuan Xue

Quantum computing carries significant potential for addressing practical problems. However, currently available quantum devices suffer from noisy quantum gates, which degrade the fidelity of executed quantum circuits. Therefore, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Ji Liu , Alvin Gonzales , Benchen Huang , Zain Hamid Saleem , Paul Hovland

The Quantum Fourier transform (QFT) is a key ingredient in most quantum algorithms. We have compared various spin-based quantum computing schemes to implement the QFT from the point of view of their actual time-costs and the accuracy of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Kavita Dorai , Dieter Suter

This paper proposes a new optimized quantum block-ZXZ decomposition method [7,8,10] that results in more optimal quantum circuits than the quantum Shannon decomposition (QSD)[27], which was introduced in 2006 by Shende et al. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Anna M. Krol , Zaid Al-Ars

Given a quantum algorithm, it is highly nontrivial to devise an efficient sequence of physical gates implementing the algorithm on real hardware and incorporating topological quantum error correction. In this paper, we present a first step…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Alexandru Paler , Simon J. Devitt , Austin G. Fowler

The primary objective of quantum circuit synthesis is to efficiently and accurately realize specific quantum algorithms or operations utilizing a predefined set of quantum gates, while also optimizing the circuit size. It holds a pivotal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Jialiang Tang , Jialin Zhang , Xiaoming Sun

Quantum computing faces a key challenge: balancing the need for low circuit depth (crucial for fault tolerance) with the high accuracy required for complex computations like quantum chemistry and error correction, which typically require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Ioana Moflic , Alexandru Paler , Akash Kundu

State-of-the-art quantum circuit optimization (QCO) algorithms for T-count reduction often lead to a substantial increase in two-qubit gate count (2Q-count) -- a drawback that existing 2Q-count optimization techniques struggle to address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Mu-Te Lau , Hsiang-Chun Yang , Hsin-Yu Chen , Chung-Yang Ric Huang

We study the performance and resource usage of the variational quantum factoring (VQF) algorithm for different instance sizes and optimization algorithms. Our simulations show better chance of finding the ground state when using VQE rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Vivian Phan , Arttu Pönni , Matti Raasakka , Ilkka Tittonen

Several prominent quantum computing algorithms--including Grover's search algorithm and Shor's algorithm for finding the prime factorization of an integer--employ subcircuits termed 'oracles' that embed a specific instance of a mathematical…

Quantum gate set tomography (GST) has emerged as a promising method for the full characterization of quantum logic gates. In contrast to quantum process tomography (QPT), GST self-consistently and correctly accounts for state preparation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-11 Daniel Greenbaum

While all quantum algorithms can be expressed in terms of single-qubit and two-qubit gates, more expressive gate sets can help reduce the algorithmic depth. This is important in the presence of gate errors, especially those due to…

To overcome the physical limitations of scaling monolithic quantum computers, distributed quantum computing (DQC) interconnects multiple smaller-scale quantum processing units (QPUs) to form a quantum network. However, this approach…

Convolution operations are foundational to classical image processing and modern deep learning architectures, yet their extension into the quantum domain has remained algorithmically and physically costly due to inefficient data encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Mohammad Rasoul Roshanshah , Payman Kazemikhah , Hossein Aghababa

We present a simple and fast numerical procedure to search for good quantum codes for storing logical qubits in the presence of independent per-qubit noise. In a key departure from past work, we use the worst-case fidelity as the figure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-13 Akshaya Jayashankar , Anjala M Babu , Hui Khoon Ng , Prabha Mandayam