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Control is a fundamental concept in quantum and reversible computational models. It enables the conditional application of a transformation to a system, depending on the state of another system. We introduce a general framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Noé Delorme , Simon Perdrix

This work shows that minimizing the depth of a quantum circuit composed of commuting operations reduces to a vertex coloring problem on an appropriately constructed graph, where gates correspond to vertices and edges encode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Hochang Lee , Kyung Chul Jeong , Panjin Kim

Optimal control theory is a versatile tool that presents a route to significantly improving figures of merit for quantum information tasks. We combine it here with the geometric theory for local equivalence classes of two-qubit operations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 M. M. Müller , D. M. Reich , M. Murphy , H. Yuan , J. Vala , K. B. Whaley , T. Calarco , C. P. Koch

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

For the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs), we show that the quantum Fourier transform (QFT) can enable the design of quantum circuits that are particularly simple, both conceptually and with regard to hardware requirements.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Michael Lubasch , Yuta Kikuchi , Lewis Wright , Conor Mc Keever

We consider a generic elementary gate sequence which is needed to implement a general quantum gate acting on n qubits -- a unitary transformation with 4^n degrees of freedom. For synthesizing the gate sequence, a method based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mikko Mottonen , Juha J. Vartiainen , Ville Bergholm , Martti M. Salomaa

We develop a unitary dependence theory to characterize the behaviors of quantum circuits and states in terms of how quantum gates manipulate qubits and determine their measurement probabilities. A qubit has dependence on a 1-qubit unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-07 Zixuan Hu , Sabre Kais

We develop a sound and complete equational theory for the functional quantum programming language QML. The soundness and completeness of the theory are with respect to the previously-developed denotational semantics of QML. The completeness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 Thorsten Altenkirch , Jonathan Grattage , Juliana K. Vizzotto , Amr Sabry

We demonstrate that conditional as well as unconditional basic operations which are prerequisite for universal quantum gates can be performed with almost 100% fidelity within a strongly interacting two-electron quantum ring. Both sets of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 Lene Sælen , Erik Waltersson , J. P. Hansen , Eva Lindroth

Many promising quantum algorithms in economics, medical science, and material science rely on circuits that are parameterized by a large number of angles. To ensure that these algorithms are efficient, these parameterized circuits must be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Neil J. Ross , Scott Wesley

In this work, we develop a novel mathematical framework for universal digital quantum computation using algebraic probability theory. We rigorously define quantum circuits as finite sequences of elementary quantum gates and establish their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Antonio Falcó , Daniela Falcó--Pomares , Hermann G. Matthies

Concordant computation is a circuit-based model of quantum computation for mixed states, that assumes that all correlations within the register are discord-free (i.e. the correlations are essentially classical) at every step of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Hugo Cable , Daniel E. Browne

Existing quantum compilers optimize quantum circuits by applying circuit transformations designed by experts. This approach requires significant manual effort to design and implement circuit transformations for different quantum devices,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Mingkuan Xu , Zikun Li , Oded Padon , Sina Lin , Jessica Pointing , Auguste Hirth , Henry Ma , Jens Palsberg , Alex Aiken , Umut A. Acar , Zhihao Jia

An algorithm is proposed to convert arbitrary unitary matrix to a sequence of $X$ gates and fully controlled $R_y, R_z$ and $R_1$ gates. This algorithm is used to generate Q# implementation for arbitrary unitary matrix. Some optimizations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Dmytro Fedoriaka

In this survey article we give basic introduction to the theory of quantum families of maps. We begin with a general look at non-commutative (or "quantum") topology. Then we formulate all our results in this language. Existence of quantum…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2012-11-06 Piotr M. Sołtan

The predictions that quantum theory makes about the outcomes of measurements are generally probabilistic. This has raised the question whether quantum theory can be considered complete, or whether there could exist alternative theories that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Roger Colbeck , Renato Renner

We present a constructive method to translate small quantum circuits into their optical analogues, using linear components of present-day quantum optics technology only. These optical circuits perform precisely the computation that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Adami , N. J. Cerf

We present a classically solvable model that leads to optimized low-depth quantum circuits leveraging separable pair approximations. The obtained circuits are well suited as a baseline circuit for emerging quantum hardware and can, in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-07 Jakob S. Kottmann , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

This paper concerns the efficient implementation of quantum circuits for qudits. We show that controlled two-qudit gates can be implemented without ancillas and prove that the gate library containing arbitrary local unitaries and one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gavin K. Brennen , Stephen S. Bullock , Dianne P. O'Leary

In the lectures we will be concerned with some aspects of physical implementations of quantum gate operations which are necessary for quantum information processing. We will discuss two possible realizations. One of them is based on qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Scheel , Jiannis Pachos , E. A. Hinds , Peter L. Knight