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As the effort to scale up existing quantum hardware proceeds, it becomes necessary to schedule quantum gates in a way that minimizes the number of operations. There are three constraints that have to be satisfied: the order or dependency of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Jongsoo Park

Quantum circuit synthesis is the process in which an arbitrary unitary operation is decomposed into a sequence of gates from a universal set, typically one which a quantum computer can implement both efficiently and fault-tolerantly. As…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Olivia Di Matteo , Michele Mosca

Quantum circuit synthesis is the task of decomposing a given quantum operator into a sequence of elementary quantum gates. Since the finite target gate set cannot exactly implement any given operator, approximation is often necessary. Model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Dekel Zak , Jingyi Mei , Jean-Marie Lagniez , Alfons Laarman

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…

We consider the problem of mapping a logical quantum circuit onto a given hardware with limited two-qubit connectivity. We model this problem as an integer linear program, using a network flow formulation with binary variables that includes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Giacomo Nannicini , Lev S Bishop , Oktay Gunluk , Petar Jurcevic

Compiling quantum circuits to account for hardware restrictions is an essential part of the quantum computing stack. Circuit compilation allows us to adapt algorithm descriptions into a sequence of operations supported by real quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Alejandro Villoria , Henning Basold , Alfons Laarman

Currently available quantum computing hardware platforms have limited 2-qubit connectivity among their addressable qubits. In order to run a generic quantum algorithm on such a platform, one has to transform the initial logical quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Beatrice Nash , Vlad Gheorghiu , Michele Mosca

We perform optimal-control-theory calculations to determine the minimum number of two-qubit CNOT gates needed to perform quantum state preparation and unitary operator synthesis for few-qubit systems. By considering all possible gate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Sahel Ashhab , Naoki Yamamoto , Fumiki Yoshihara , Kouichi Semba

Quantum algorithms need to be compiled to respect the constraints imposed by quantum processors, which is known as the mapping problem. The mapping procedure will result in an increase of the number of gates and of the circuit latency,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Lingling Lao , Hans van Someren , Imran Ashraf , Carmen G. Almudever

While a couple of impressive quantum technologies have been proposed, they have several intrinsic limitations which must be considered by circuit designers to produce realizable circuits. Limited interaction distance between gate qubits is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-06 Mehdi Saeedi , Robert Wille , Rolf Drechsler

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

Topological quantum computing has recently proven itself to be a very powerful model when considering large- scale, fully error corrected quantum architectures. In addition to its robust nature under hardware errors, it is a software driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Alexandru Paler , Simon J. Devitt , Kae Nemoto , Ilia Polian

Quantum computing promises breakthroughs in simulating and solving complex, classically intractable problems. However, current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices are relatively small and error-prone, prohibiting large-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Gary J Mooney

We present a method for optimizing quantum circuits architecture. The method is based on the notion of "quantum comb", which describes a circuit board in which one can insert variable subcircuits. The method allows one to efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-08 Giulio Chiribella , Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano , Paolo Perinotti

Due to the physics behind quantum computing, quantum circuit designers must adhere to the constraints posed by the limited interaction distance of qubits. Existing circuits need therefore to be modified via the insertion of SWAP gates,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-21 Jesse Mulderij , Karen I. Aardal , Irina Chiscop , Frank Phillipson

This paper presents a physical mapping tool for quantum circuits, which generates the optimal Universal Logic Block (ULB) that can perform any logical fault-tolerant (FT) quantum operations with the minimum latency. The operation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-13 Hadi Goudarzi , Mohammad Javad Dousti , Alireza Shafaei , Massoud Pedram

Current quantum devices typically lack full qubit connectivity, making it difficult to directly execute logical circuits on quantum devices. This limitation necessitates quantum circuit mapping algorithms to insert SWAP gates, dynamically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Kang Xu , Yukun Wang , Dandan Li

Quantum circuit compilation and, in particular, efficient qubit layout synthesis is a critical challenge in modular, multi-core quantum architectures with constrained interconnects. In this work, we extend the SABRE heuristic algorithm to…

Quantum computing leverages the unique properties of qubits and quantum parallelism to solve problems intractable for classical systems, offering unparalleled computational potential. However, the optimization of quantum circuits remains…

A minimal depth quantum circuit implementing 5-qubit quantum error correction in a manner optimized for a linear nearest neighbor architecture is described. The canonical decomposition is used to construct fast and simple gates that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Austin G. Fowler , Charles D. Hill , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg