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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

Nowadays in Quantum Computing, the implementation of quantum algorithm has created a stir since Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices are out in the market. Researchers are mostly interested in solving NP-complete problems with…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Amit Saha , Debasri Saha , 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

Quantum circuit transformation (QCT, a.k.a. qubit mapping) is a critical step in quantum circuit compilation. Typically, QCT is achieved by finding an appropriate initial mapping and using SWAP gates to route the qubits such that all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 Sanjiang Li , Ky Dan Nguyen , Zachary Clare , Yuan Feng

Due to several physical limitations in the realisation of quantum hardware, today's quantum computers are qualified as Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware. NISQ hardware is characterized by a small number of qubits (50 to a few…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Siyuan Niu , Adrien Suau , Gabriel Staffelbach , Aida Todri-Sanial

We initiate the study of parameterized complexity of $\textsf{QMA}$ problems in terms of the number of non-Clifford gates in the problem description. We show that for the problem of parameterized quantum circuit satisfiability, there exists…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Sergey Bravyi , Chinmay Nirkhe , Bryan O'Gorman

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 the paper, we consider quantum circuits for the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) algorithm. The QFT algorithm is a very popular technique used in many quantum algorithms. We present a generic method for constructing quantum circuits for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Kamil Khadiev , Aliya Khadieva , Vadim Sagitov , Kamil Khasanov

The qubit routing problem, also known as the swap minimization problem, is a (classical) combinatorial optimization problem that arises in the design of compilers of quantum programs. We study the qubit routing problem from the viewpoint of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Takehiro Ito , Naonori Kakimura , Naoyuki Kamiyama , Yusuke Kobayashi , Yoshio Okamoto

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

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chi Zhang , Yanhao Chen , Yuwei Jin , Wonsun Ahn , Youtao Zhang , Eddy Z. Zhang

Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) machines are not fault-tolerant, operate few qubits (currently, less than hundred), but are capable of executing interesting computations. Above the quantum supremacy threshold (approx. 60 qubits),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Alexandru Paler

In order to implement a quantum computing application, problem instances must be encoded into a quantum circuit and then compiled for a specific platform. The lengthy compilation process is a key bottleneck in this workflow, especially for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Nils Quetschlich , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

Current superconducting quantum devices impose strict connectivity constraints on quantum circuit execution, necessitating circuit transformation before executing quantum circuits on physical hardware. Numerous quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Sanjiang Li , Xiangzhen Zhou , Yuan Feng

Quantum computing has proven to be capable of accelerating many algorithms by performing tasks that classical computers cannot. Currently, Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) machines struggle from scalability and noise issues to render…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Chao Lu , Navnil Choudhury , Utsav Banerjee , Abdullah Ash Saki , Kanad Basu

As quantum computing resources remain scarce and error rates high, minimizing the resource consumption of quantum circuits is essential for achieving practical quantum advantage. Here we consider the natural problem of, given a circuit $C$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Adam Husted Kjelstrøm , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Jaco van de Pol

Given the limitations of current hardware, the theoretical gains promised by quantum computing remain unrealized across practical applications. But the gap between theory and hardware is closing, assisted by developments in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Elena R. Henderson , Harsha Nagarajan , Carleton Coffrin

Quantum computing (QC) technologies have reached a second renaissance in the last decade. Some fully programmable QC devices have been built based on superconducting or ion trap technologies. Although different quantum technologies have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Yu Zhang , Haowei Deng , Quanxi Li

The recent progress in the physical realization of quantum computers (the first publicly available ones--IBM's QX architectures--have been launched in 2017) has motivated research on automatic methods that aid users in running quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Robert Wille , Lukas Burgholzer , Alwin Zulehner

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

There is no unique way to encode a quantum algorithm into a quantum circuit. With limited qubit counts, connectivities, and coherence times, circuit optimization is essential to make the best use of near-term quantum devices. We introduce…