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Quantum channels can describe all transformations allowed by quantum mechanics. We provide an explicit universal protocol to construct all possible quantum channels, using a single qubit ancilla with quantum non-demolition readout and…

We provide an analytic way to implement any arbitrary two-qubit unitary operation, given an entangling two-qubit gate together with local gates. This is shown to provide explicit construction of a universal quantum circuit that exactly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun Zhang , Jiri Vala , Shankar Sastry , K. Birgitta Whaley

Current experimental quantum computing devices are limited by noise, mainly originating from entangling gates. If an efficient gate sequence for an operation is unknown, one often employs layered parameterized quantum circuits, especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Tom R. Rieckmann , Stefan Scheel , A. Douglas K. Plato

Existing and near-term quantum computers can only perform two-qubit gates between physically connected qubits. Research has been done on compilers to rewrite quantum programs to match hardware constraints. However, the quantum processor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-05 Wei Hu , Yang Yang , Weiye Xia , Jiawei Pi , Enyi Huang , Xin-Ding Zhang , Hua Xu

This work introduces and characterizes quantum sequential circuits (QSCs) as a hardware-oriented paradigm for quantum computing, built upon a novel foundational element termed the quantum transistor. Unlike conventional qubit-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 D. -S. Wang

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

We introduce the first complete equational theory for quantum circuits. More precisely, we introduce a set of circuit equations that we prove to be sound and complete: two circuits represent the same unitary map if and only if they can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Alexandre Clément , Nicolas Heurtel , Shane Mansfield , Simon Perdrix , Benoît Valiron

In recent years, various frameworks have been proposed for the study of quantum processes with indefinite causal order. In particular, quantum circuits with quantum control of causal order (QC-QCs) form a broad class of physical supermaps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Maarten Grothus , Alastair A. Abbott , Augustin Vanrietvelde , Cyril Branciard

This report introduces a novel class of reasoning architectures, termed Quantum Circuit Reasoning Models (QCRM), which extend the concept of Variational Quantum Circuits (VQC) from energy minimization and classification tasks to structured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Andrew Kiruluta

To execute quantum circuits on a quantum processor, they must be modified to meet the physical constraints of the quantum device. This process, called quantum circuit mapping, results in a gate/circuit depth overhead that depends on both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Medina Bandić , Carmen G. Almudever , Sebastian Feld

The physical limitations of quantum hardware often require nearest-neighbor qubit structures, in which two-qubit gates are required to construct nearest-neighbor quantum circuits. However, two-qubit gates are considered a major cost of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Byeongyong Park , Doyeol Ahn

Natural frequencies and normal modes are basic properties of a structure which play important roles in analyses of its vibrational characteristics. As their computation reduces to solving eigenvalue problems, it is a natural arena for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Yasunori Lee , Keita Kanno

Near-term hardware is constrained by high error rates, small qubit counts, and relatively low output fidelity, making the execution of large, high performance quantum circuits difficult. Circuit partitioning (or circuit cutting) has emerged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Connor Howe , Cristina Radian , Justin Woodring , Vardaan Sahgal , Brian J. McDermott

Modelling the electrical response of multi-level quantum systems at finite frequency has been typically performed in the context of two incomplete paradigms: (i) input-output theory, which is valid at any frequency but neglects dynamic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 L. Peri , M. Benito , C. J. B. Ford , M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba

We present a formalism for encoding the logical basis of a qubit into subspaces of multiple physical levels. The need for this multilevel encoding arises naturally in situations where the speed of quantum operations exceeds the limits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew Grace , Constantin Brif , Herschel Rabitz , Ian Walmsley , Robert Kosut , Daniel Lidar

We develop a layered quantum computer architecture, which is a systematic framework for tackling the individual challenges of developing a quantum computer while constructing a cohesive device design. We discuss many of the prominent…

An active area of investigation in the search for quantum advantage is Quantum Machine Learning. Quantum Machine Learning, and Parameterized Quantum Circuits in a hybrid quantum-classical setup in particular, could bring advancements in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Thomas Hubregtsen , Josef Pichlmeier , Patrick Stecher , Koen Bertels

We provide a method for compiling approximate multi-controlled single qubit gates into quantum circuits without ancilla qubits. The total number of elementary gates to decompose an n-qubit multi-controlled gate is proportional to 32n, and…

Quantum process tomography (QPT) is a fundamental tool for fully characterizing quantum systems. It relies on querying a set of quantum states as input to the quantum process. Previous QPT methods typically employ a straightforward strategy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jiaqi Yang , Xiaohua Xu , Wei Xie

Qudit is a multi-level computational unit alternative to the conventional 2-level qubit. Compared to qubit, qudit provides a larger state space to store and process information, and thus can provide reduction of the circuit complexity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Yuchen Wang , Zixuan Hu , Barry C. Sanders , Sabre Kais