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Quantum hardware development is progressing rapidly with substantial advancements achieved across leading platforms, including superconducting circuits, trapped-ion systems, and neutral atom arrays. As the pursuit of practical quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Chenghong Zhu , Xian Wu , Zhaohui Yang , Jingbo Wang , Anbang Wu , Shenggen Zheng , Xin Wang

Mapping logical quantum circuits to Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices is a challenging problem which has attracted rapidly increasing interests from both quantum and classical computing communities. This paper proposes an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-23 Sanjiang Li , Xiangzhen Zhou , Yuan Feng

Quantum computers are expected to scale in size to close the gap that currently exists between quantum algorithms and quantum hardware. To this end, quantum compilation techniques must scale along with the hardware constraints, shifting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Pau Escofet , Alejandro Gonzalvo , Eduard Alarcón , Carmen G. Almudéver , Sergi Abadal

Quantum computing offers unparalleled computational capabilities but faces significant challenges, including limited qubit counts, diverse hardware topologies, and dynamic noise/error rates, which hinder scalability and reliability.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Zefan Du , Yanni Li , Zijian Mo , Wenqi Wei , Juntao Chen , Rajkumar Buyya , Ying Mao

Near-term quantum computers will operate in a noisy environment, without error correction. A critical problem for near-term quantum computing is laying out a logical circuit onto a physical device with limited connectivity between qubits.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Abtin Molavi , Amanda Xu , Martin Diges , Lauren Pick , Swamit Tannu , Aws Albarghouthi

Quantum circuit mapping is a crucial process in the quantum circuit compilation pipeline, facilitating the transformation of a logical quantum circuit into a list of instructions directly executable on a target quantum system. Recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Di Yu , Kun Fang

Most quantum circuits require SWAP gate insertion to run on quantum hardware with limited qubit connectivity. A promising SWAP gate insertion method for blocks of commuting two-qubit gates is a predetermined swap strategy which applies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Atsushi Matsuo , Shigeru Yamashita , Daniel J. Egger

Quantum circuits are typically represented by a (ordered) sequence of gates over a set of virtual qubits. During compilation, the virtual qubits of the gates are assigned to the physical qubits of the underlying quantum hardware, a step…

Despite rapid advances in quantum computing technologies, the qubit connectivity limitation remains to be a critical challenge. Both near-term NISQ quantum computers and relatively long-term scalable quantum architectures do not offer full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Ji Liu , Peiyi Li , Huiyang Zhou

Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial-time (IQP) circuits are a candidate for demonstrating near-term quantum advantage, as their sampling task is believed to be classically hard in the ideal theoretical setting under standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Leonardo Placidi , Enrico Rinaldi , Keisuke Fujii , Chen-Yu Liu

The rapid progress of physical implementation of quantum computers paved the way for the design of tools to help users write quantum programs for any given quantum device. The physical constraints inherent in current NISQ architectures…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Chi Zhang , Yanhao Chen , Yuwei Jin , Wonsun Ahn , Youtao Zhang , Eddy Z. Zhang

In some physical implementations of quantum computers, 2-qubit operations can be applied only on certain pairs of qubits. Compilation of a quantum circuit into one compliant to such qubit connectivity constraint results in an increase of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Pei Yuan , Shengyu Zhang

Design space exploration (DSE) plays an important role in optimising quantum circuit execution by systematically evaluating different configurations of compilation strategies and hardware settings. In this work, we study the impact of…

Quantum computers with a limited qubit connectivity require inserting SWAP gates for qubit routing, which increases gate execution errors and the impact of environmental noise due to an overhead in circuit depth. In this work, we benchmark…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Vicente Pina-Canelles , Adrian Auer , Inés de Vega

Quantum algorithm design usually assumes access to a perfect quantum computer with ideal properties like full connectivity, noise-freedom and arbitrarily long coherence time. In Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, however, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-11 Xiangzhen Zhou , Sanjiang Li , Yuan Feng

Modular quantum processors require a compiler to reason about two resources at the same time: local device connectivity and communication across QPUs. A mapping that is acceptable on a single coupling graph may be unsuitable for a modular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Soumyadip Sarkar , Subhasree Bhattacharjee

Executing quantum circuits on currently available quantum computers requires compiling them to a representation that conforms to all restrictions imposed by the targeted architecture. Due to the limited connectivity of the devices' physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Lukas Burgholzer , Sarah Schneider , Robert Wille

Qubit coherence and gate fidelity are typically considered the two most important metrics for characterizing a quantum processor. An equally important metric is inter-qubit connectivity as it minimizes gate count and allows implementing…

Compiling a given quantum algorithm into a target hardware architecture is a challenging optimization problem. The compiler must take into consideration the coupling graph of physical qubits and the gate operation dependencies. The existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Xiangyu Gao , Yuwei Jin , Minghao Guo , Henry Chen , Eddy Z. Zhang

To evaluate a quantum circuit on a quantum processor, one must find a mapping from circuit qubits to processor qubits and plan the instruction execution while satisfying the processor's constraints. This is known as the qubit mapping and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Abtin Molavi , Amanda Xu , Ethan Cecchetti , Swamit Tannu , Aws Albarghouthi