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When designing quantum circuits for a given unitary, it can be much cheaper to achieve a good approximation on most inputs than on all inputs. In this work we formalize this idea, and propose that such "optimistic quantum circuits" are…

Multi-controlled Toffoli gates are fundamental building blocks in quantum computation, with applications in quantum arithmetic, simulation, and search algorithms. In fault-tolerant architectures, their realization is constrained by the high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Abhoy Kole , Majd Assaad , Till Schnittka , Rolf Drechsler

Quantum modular adders are one of the most fundamental yet versatile quantum computation operations. They help implement functions of higher complexity, such as subtraction and multiplication, which are used in applications such as quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Bhaskar Gaur , Himanshu Thapliyal

Many quantum algorithms make use of ancilla, additional qubits used to store temporary information during computation, to reduce the total execution time. Quantum computers will be resource-constrained for years to come so reducing ancilla…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Jonathan M. Baker , Casey Duckering , Frederic T. Chong

Decoherence -- in the current physical implementations of quantum computers -- makes depth reduction a vital task in quantum-circuit design. Moore and Nilsson (SIAM Journal of Computing, 2001) demonstrated that additional qubits -- known as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Jiaqing Jiang , Xiaoming Sun , Shang-Hua Teng , Bujiao Wu , Kewen Wu , Jialin Zhang

Physical implementation of scalable quantum architectures faces an immense challenge in form of fragile quantum states. To overcome it, quantum architectures with fault tolerance is desirable. This is achieved currently by using surface…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Laxmidhar Biswal , Debjyoti Bhattacharjee , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Hafizur Rahaman

We improve the number of T gates needed to perform an n-bit adder from 8n + O(1) to 4n + O(1). We do so via a "temporary logical-AND" construction which uses four T gates to store the logical-AND of two qubits into an ancilla and zero T…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-21 Craig Gidney

We give a Clifford+T representation of the Toffoli gate of T-depth 1, using four ancillas. More generally, we describe a class of circuits whose T-depth can be reduced to 1 by using sufficiently many ancillas. We show that the cost of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 Peter Selinger

Quantum computers have the potential to break classical cryptographic systems by efficiently solving problems such as the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem using Shor's algorithm. While resource estimates for factoring-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Quan Gu , Han Ye , Junjie Chen , Xiongfeng Ma

Quantum Computing is making significant advancements toward creating machines capable of implementing quantum algorithms in various fields, such as quantum cryptography, quantum image processing, and optimization. The development of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Bhaskar Gaur , Edgard Muñoz-Coreas , Himanshu Thapliyal

The synthesis of quantum operators involves decomposing general quantum gates into the gate set supported by a given quantum device. Multi-controlled gates are essential components in this process. In this work, we present an improved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Jefferson D. S. Silva , Adenilton J. da Silva

In this work, we present a class of new designs for reversible binary and BCD adder circuits. The proposed designs are primarily optimized for the number of ancilla inputs and the number of garbage outputs and are designed for possible best…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-08 Himanshu Thapliyal , Nagarajan Ranganathan

We present an implementation of multi-controlled quantum gates which provides significant reductions of cost compared to state-of-the-art methods. The operator applied on the target qubit is a unitary, special unitary, or the Pauli X…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Ben Zindorf , Sougato Bose

Reversible logic has attracted much research interest over the last few decades, especially due to its application in quantum computing. In the construction of reversible gates from basic gates, ancilla bits are commonly used to remove…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Siyao Xu

Quantum arithmetic circuits have practical applications in various quantum algorithms. In this paper, we address quantum addition on 2-dimensional nearest-neighbor architectures based on the work presented by Choi and Van Meter (JETC 2012).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Mehdi Saeedi , Alireza Shafaei , Massoud Pedram

We first show how to construct an O(n)-depth O(n)-size quantum circuit for addition of two n-bit binary numbers with no ancillary qubits. The exact size is 7n-6, which is smaller than that of any other quantum circuit ever constructed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-17 Yasuhiro Takahashi , Seiichiro Tani , Noboru Kunihiro

The decomposition for controlled-$ZX$ gate in [Phys. Rev. A, 87, 062318 (2013)] has a shallow circuit depth $8n-20$ with no ancilla. Here we modify this decomposition to decompose $n$-qubit Toffoli gate with only $2n-3$ additional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-25 Jian Leng , Fan Yang , Xiang-Bin Wang

For a number of useful quantum circuits, qudit constructions have been found which reduce resource requirements compared to the best known or best possible qubit construction. However, many of the necessary qutrit gates in these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Lia Yeh , John van de Wetering

Quantum state preparation, also known as encoding or embedding, is a crucial initial step in many quantum algorithms and often constrains theoretical quantum speedup in fields such as quantum machine learning and linear equation solvers.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Vittorio Pagni , Gary Schmiedinghoff , Kevin Lively , Michael Epping , Michael Felderer

The multiplication of superpositions of numbers is a core operation in many quantum algorithms. The standard method for multiplication (both classical and quantum) has a runtime quadratic in the size of the inputs. Quantum circuits with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Gregory D. Kahanamoku-Meyer , Norman Y. Yao