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As the field of quantum computing grows, novel algorithms which take advantage of quantum phenomena need to be developed. As we are currently in the NISQ (noisy intermediate scale quantum) era, quantum algorithm researchers cannot reliably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Youssef Moawad , Andrew Brown , René Steijl , Wim Vanderbauwhede

A primary objective of quantum computation is to efficiently simulate quantum physics. Scientifically and technologically important quantum Hamiltonians include those with spin-$s$, vibrational, photonic, and other bosonic degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 Nicolas P. D. Sawaya , Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Adam Holmes

The Quantum Skip Gate (QSG) is a unitary circuit primitive that coherently superposes the execution and omission of an expensive quantum subroutine based on the outcome of a cheaper preceding subroutine, without mid-circuit measurement or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Kym Derriman

A quantum circuit transformation (QCT) is required when executing a quantum program in a real quantum processing unit (QPU). Through inserting auxiliary SWAP gates, a QCT algorithm transforms a quantum circuit to one that satisfies the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Xiangzhen Zhou , Yuan Feng , Sanjiang Li

The quantum circuit mapping approach is an indispensable part of the software stack for the noisy intermediatescale quantum (NISQ) device. It has a significant impact on the reliability of computational tasks on NISQ devices. To improve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Pengcheng Zhu , Weiping Ding , Lihua Wei , Zhijin Guan , Shiguang Feng

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

This paper addresses quantum circuit mapping for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. Since NISQ computers constraint two-qubit operations on limited couplings, an input circuit must be transformed into an equivalent output…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Toshinari Itoko , Rudy Raymond , Takashi Imamichi , Atsushi Matsuo

Currently, quantum computing is developing at a high speed because its high parallelism and high computing power bring new solutions to many fields. However, due to chip process technology, it is difficult to achieve full coupling of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Xin-miao Chen , Shi Wang , Yong-jin Ye , Bo Jiang , Yong-zheng Wu

In Layout Synthesis, the logical qubits of a quantum circuit are mapped to the physical qubits of a given quantum hardware platform, taking into account the connectivity of physical qubits. This involves inserting SWAP gates before an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Irfansha Shaik , Jaco van de Pol

To realize large-scale quantum information processes, an ideal scheme for two-qubit operations should enable diverse operations with given hardware and physical interaction. However, for spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots, the common…

Quantum algorithms implemented on near-term devices require qubit mapping due to noise and limited qubit connectivity. In this paper we propose a strategy called algorithm-oriented qubit mapping (AOQMAP) that aims to bridge the gap between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Yanjun Ji , Xi Chen , Ilia Polian , Yue Ban

Qubit routing is a key problematic related to quantum circuit compilation. It consists in rewriting a quantum circuit by adding the least possible number of instructions to make the circuit compliant with some architecture's connectivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Simon Martiel , Timothée Goubault de Brugière

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 layout synthesis (QLS) is a critical step in quantum program compilation for superconducting quantum computers, involving the insertion of SWAP gates to satisfy hardware connectivity constraints. While previous works have introduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Shuohao Ping , Wan-Hsuan Lin , Daniel Bochen Tan , Jason Cong

Compiling quantum algorithms for near-term quantum computers (accounting for connectivity and native gate alphabets) is a major challenge that has received significant attention both by industry and academia. Avoiding the exponential…

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

We present a formalism based on tracking the flow of parity quantum information to implement algorithms on devices with limited connectivity without qubit overhead, SWAP operations or shuttling. Instead, we leverage the fact that entangling…

The implementation of a quantum router capable of performing both quantum signal routing and quantum addressing (a Q2-router) represents a key step toward building quantum networks and quantum random access memories. We realize a Q2-router…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Connie Miao , Sébastien Léger , Ziqian Li , Gideon Lee , Liang Jiang , David I. Schuster

The vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) is a common optimization problem faced within the logistics industry. In this work, we explore the use of a previously-introduced qubit encoding scheme to reduce the number of binary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Ioannis D. Leonidas , Alexander Dukakis , Benjamin Tan , Dimitris G. Angelakis

The Swap gate is a ubiquitous tool for moving information on quantum hardware, yet it can be considered a classical operation because it does not entangle product states. Genuinely quantum operations could outperform Swap for the task of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Aniruddha Bapat , Andrew M. Childs , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Eddie Schoute