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Advances in reverse engineering make it challenging to deploy any on-chip information in a way that is hidden from a determined attacker. A variety of techniques have been proposed for design obfuscation including look-alike cells in which…

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A classical obfuscator for quantum circuits is a classical program that, given the classical description of a quantum circuit $Q$, outputs the classical description of a functionally equivalent quantum circuit $\hat{Q}$ that hides as much…

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Layout synthesis is mapping a quantum circuit to a quantum processor. SWAP gate insertions are needed for scheduling 2-qubit gates only on connected physical qubits. With the ever-increasing number of qubits in NISQ processors, scalable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Irfansha Shaik , Jaco van de Pol

A physical limitation in quantum circuit design is the fact that gates in a quantum system can only act on qubits that are physically adjacent in the architecture. To overcome this problem, SWAP gates need to be inserted to make the circuit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Frank de Meijer , Dion Gijswijt , Renata Sotirov

We estimate and analyze the error rates and the resource overheads of the repetition cat qubit approach to universal and fault-tolerant quantum computation. The cat qubits stabilized by two-photon dissipation exhibit an extremely biased…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Jérémie Guillaud , Mazyar Mirrahimi

Quantum computing is performed on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware in the short term. Only small circuits can be executed reliably on a quantum machine due to the unavoidable noisy quantum operations on NISQ devices, leading…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Siyuan Niu , Aida Todri-Sanial

Integrated circuit (IC) camouflaging is a promising technique to protect the design of a chip from reverse engineering. However, recent work has shown that even camouflaged ICs can be reverse engineered from the observed input/output…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Mohamed El Massad , Siddharth Garg , Mahesh Tripunitara

There is currently a tremendous interest in developing practical applications of NISQ processors without the overhead required by full error correction. Quantum information processing is especially challenging within the gate model, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Michael R. Geller

Quantum computing is a new technology that is expected to revolutionize the computation paradigm in the next few years. Qubits exploit the quantum physics proprieties to increase the parallelism and speed of computation. Unfortunately,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Daniel Oliveira , Edoardo Giusto , Emanuele Dri , Nadir Casciola , Betis Baheri , Qiang Guan , Bartolomeo Montrucchio , Paolo Rech

We present a depth-aware optimization framework for quantum circuit compilation that unifies provable optimality with scalable heuristics. For exact synthesis of a target unitary, we formulate a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Harsha Nagarajan , Zsolt Szabó

Achieving practical quantum advantage on near-term noisy hardware is a central goal of quantum computation. However, without efficient pre-execution diagnostics, circuit design and scheme selection often rely on costly hardware-in-the-loop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Yuguo Shao , Zhenyu Chen , Zhaohui Wei , Zhengwei Liu

In recent years, quantum computing has started to demonstrate superior efficiency to classical computing. In quantum computing, quantum circuits that implement specific quantum algorithms are usually not directly executable on quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Yuntao Liu , Jayden John , Qian Wang

We study the problem of compilation of quantum algorithms into optimized physical-level circuits executable in a quantum information processing (QIP) experiment based on trapped atomic ions. We report a complete strategy: starting with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Dmitri Maslov

High-connectivity circuits are a major roadblock for current quantum hardware. We propose a hybrid classical-quantum algorithm to simulate such circuits without swap-gate ladders. As main technical tool, we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Roeland Wiersema , Leonardo Guerini , Juan Felipe Carrasquilla , Leandro Aolita

To effectively implement quantum algorithms on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processors is a central task in modern quantum technology. NISQ processors feature tens to a few hundreds of noisy qubits with limited coherence times…

The ability to connect distant qubits plays a fundamental role in quantum computing. Therefore, quantum systems candidates for quantum computation must be able to interact all their constituent qubits. Here, we model the quantum dot spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Iann Cunha , Leonardo Kleber Castelano

Numerous scientific developments in this NISQ-era (Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum) have raised the importance for quantum algorithms relative to their conventional counterparts due to its asymptotic advantage. For resource estimates in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Amit Saha , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Amlan Chakrabarti

Qubit Mapping is a critical task in Quantum Compilation, as modern Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) are constrained to nearest-neighbor interactions defined by a qubit coupling graph. This compiler pass repairs the connectivity of two-qubit…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Marouane Benbetka , Merwan Bekkar , Riyadh Baghdadi , Martin Kong

Medium-scale quantum devices that integrate about hundreds of physical qubits are likely to be developed in the near future. However, such devices will lack the resources for realizing quantum fault tolerance. Therefore, the main challenge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-24 Chao Song , Jing Cui , H. Wang , J. Hao , H. Feng , Ying Li

Fidelity estimation is a critical yet resource-intensive step in testing quantum programs on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, where the required number of measurements is difficult to predefine due to hardware noise, device…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Tingting Li , Ziming Zhao , Jianwei Yin