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The problem of finding good approximations of arbitrary 1-qubit gates is identical to that of finding a dense group generated by a universal subset of $SU(2)$ to approximate an arbitrary element of $SU(2)$. The Solovay-Kitaev Theorem is a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-08-03 S. B. Damelin , B. A. W. Mode

The Solovay-Kitaev algorithm is a fundamental result in quantum computation. It gives an algorithm for efficiently compiling arbitrary unitaries using universal gate sets: any unitary can be approximated by short gates sequences, whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Adam Bouland , Tudor Giurgica-Tiron

Given a set of quantum gates and a target unitary operation, the most elementary task of quantum compiling is the identification of a sequence of the gates that approximates the target unitary to a determined precision $\varepsilon$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-26 Y. Zhiyenbayev , V. M. Akulin , A. Mandilara

The Solovay-Kitaev algorithm is the standard method used for approximating arbitrary single-qubit gates for fault-tolerant quantum computation. In this paper we introduce a technique called "search space expansion", which modifies the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Pham Tien Trung , Rodney Van Meter , Dominic Horsman

This pedagogical review presents the proof of the Solovay-Kitaev theorem in the form of an efficient classical algorithm for compiling an arbitrary single-qubit gate into a sequence of gates from a fixed and finite set. The algorithm can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher M. Dawson , Michael A. Nielsen

Quantum compiling, which aims to approximate target qubit gates by finding optimal sequences (braidwords) of basic braid operations, constitutes a fundamental challenge in quantum computing. We develop a genetic algorithm (GA)-enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jiangwei Long , Xuyang Huang , Jianxin Zhong , Lijun Meng

The Solovay-Kitaev theorem states that universal quantum gate sets can be exchanged with low overhead. More specifically, any gate on a fixed number of qudits can be simulated with error $\epsilon$ using merely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-27 Adam Bouland , Maris Ozols

Arbitrarily accurate fault-tolerant (FT) universal quantum computation can be carried out using the Clifford gates Z, S, CNOT plus the non-Clifford T gate. Moreover, a recent improvement of the Solovay-Kitaev theorem by Kuperberg implies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 H. F. Chau

We describe the hashing technique to obtain a fast approximation of a target quantum gate in the unitary group SU(2) represented by a product of the elements of a universal basis. The hashing exploits the structure of the icosahedral group…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Michele Burrello , Giuseppe Mussardo , Xin Wan

Let $\Gamma$ be a group and $(\Gamma_n)_{n=1} ^{\infty}$ be a descending sequence of finite-index normal subgroups. We establish explicit upper bounds on the diameters of the directed Cayley graphs of the $\Gamma/\Gamma_n$ , under some…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Henry Bradford

In quantum computation we are given a finite set of gates and we have to perform a desired operation as a product of them. The corresponding computational problem is approximating an arbitrary unitary as a product in a topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Attila B. Nagy

We present Stochastic Commutator Synthesis, a hybrid quantum gate compilation framework that integrates Kuperberg's sub-cubic Solovay-Kitaev exponent c near 1.44042 with the error-tailoring machinery of randomized compilation. Classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Yevgen Kotukh

Currently available quantum computers, so called Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, are characterized by relatively low number of qubits and moderate gate fidelities. In such scenario, the implementation of quantum error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Oskar Słowik , Adam Sawicki

We developed a general framework for synthesizing target gates by using a finite set of basic gates, which is a crucial step in quantum compilation. When approximating a gate in SU($n$), a naive brute-force search requires a computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Soichiro Yamazaki , Seiseki Akibue

We present a systematic numerical construction of a universal quantum gate set for topological quantum computation based on the non-semisimple Ising anyons model. By employing a Genetic Algorithm-enhanced Solovay-Kitaev Algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Jiangwei Long , Zihui Liu , Yizhi Li , Jianxin Zhong , Lijun Meng

We give new upper bounds for the diameters of finite groups which do not depend on a choice of generating set. Our method exploits the commutator structure of certain profinite groups, in a fashion analogous to the Solovay-Kitaev procedure…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Henry Bradford

We give an efficient randomized algorithm for approximating an arbitrary element of $SU(2)$ by a product of Clifford+$T$ operators, up to any given error threshold $\epsilon>0$. Under a mild hypothesis on the distribution of primes, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Peter Selinger

We analyze the use of the Solovay Kitaev (SK) algorithm to generate an ensemble of one qubit rotations over which to perform randomized compilation. We perform simulations to compare the trace distance between the quantum state resulting…

The architecture of circuital quantum computers requires computing layers devoted to compiling high-level quantum algorithms into lower-level circuits of quantum gates. The general problem of quantum compiling is to approximate any unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Lorenzo Moro , Matteo G. A. Paris , Marcello Restelli , Enrico Prati

Recently an algorithm has been constructed that shows the binary icosahedral group $\2I$ together with a $T$-like gate forms the most efficient single-qubit universal gate set. To carry out the algorithm fault tolerantly requires a code…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Eric Kubischta , Ian Teixeira
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