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Quantum computing is a promising paradigm that may overcome the current computational power bottlenecks. The increasing maturity of quantum processors provides more possibilities for the development and implementation of quantum algorithms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Ge Yan , Wenjie Wu , Yuheng Chen , Kaisen Pan , Xudong Lu , Zixiang Zhou , Yuhan Wang , Ruocheng Wang , Junchi Yan

We present a quantum synthesis algorithm designed to produce short circuits and to scale well in practice. The main contribution is a novel representation of circuits able to encode placement and topology using generic "gates", which allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 Ed Younis , Koushik Sen , Katherine Yelick , Costin Iancu

Recently it has been shown that Repeat-Until-Success (RUS) circuits can approximate a given single-qubit unitary with an expected number of $T$ gates of about $1/3$ of what is required by optimal, deterministic, ancilla-free decompositions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Alex Bocharov , Martin Roetteler , Krysta M. Svore

In this paper we study the potential of using reinforcement learning (RL) in order to synthesize quantum circuits, while optimizing the T-count and CS-count, of unitaries that are exactly implementable by the Clifford+T and Clifford+CS gate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 David Kremer , Ali Javadi-Abhari , Priyanka Mukhopadhyay

We show how to directly and efficiently approximate arbitrary one-qubit unitaries, bypassing the Euler decomposition and the magnitude approximation problem, at the cost of one ancillary qubit. Our technique also applies to approximating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Vadym Kliuchnikov , Jendrik Brachter , Marcus P. da Silva

Compilation and optimization of quantum circuits are critical components in the execution of algorithms on quantum computers. These components must successfully balance two competing priorities: minimizing the number of expensive resources,…

We present an algorithm for the approximate decomposition of diagonal operators, focusing specifically on decompositions over the Clifford+$T$ basis, that minimize the number of phase-rotation gates in the synthesized approximation circuit.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Jonathan Welch , Alex Bocharov , Krysta M. Svore

The quantum circuit synthesis problem bridges quantum algorithm design and quantum hardware implementation in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. In quantum circuit synthesis problems, diagonal unitary synthesis plays a crucial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Wenqi Zhang , Jinyang Liu , Zixiang Zhou , Shuai Yang

Reversible computation is an emerging technology that has gained significant attention due to its critical role in quantum circuit synthesis and low-power design. This paper introduces a transformation-based method for exact synthesis of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Moein Sarvaghad-Moghaddam , Morteza Saheb Zamani , Mehdi Sedighi

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

We study optimal synthesis of Clifford circuits, and apply the results to peep-hole optimization of quantum circuits. We report optimal circuits for all Clifford operations with up to four inputs. We perform peep-hole optimization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-12 Vadym Kliuchnikov , Dmitri Maslov

We construct quantum circuits which exactly encode the spectra of correlated electron models up to errors from rotation synthesis. By invoking these circuits as oracles within the recently introduced "qubitization" framework, one can use…

Minimizing the use of CNOT gates in quantum state preparation is a crucial step in quantum compilation, as they introduce coupling constraints and more noise than single-qubit gates. Reducing the number of CNOT gates can lead to more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hanyu Wang , Bochen Tan , Jason Cong , Giovanni De Micheli

In order to demonstrate non-trivial quantum computations experimentally, such as the synthesis of arbitrary entangled states, it will be useful to understand how to decompose a desired quantum computation into the shortest possible sequence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Farrokh Vatan , Colin Williams

We introduce canonical forms for single qutrit Clifford+T circuits and prove that every single-qutrit Clifford+T operator admits a unique such canonical form. We show that our canonical forms are T-optimal in the sense that among all the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Andrew N. Glaudell , Neil J. Ross , Jacob M. Taylor

We present pygridsynth, an open-source Python library for ancilla-free approximate Clifford+$T$ synthesis that runs in $O(\log(1/\epsilon))$ for precision $\epsilon$. For $n=1, 2$ qubits, the library builds upon established efficient and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Shuntaro Yamamoto , Nobuyuki Yoshioka

In this note we present explicit canonical forms for all the elements in the two-qubit CNOT-Dihedral group, with minimal numbers of controlled-S (CS) and controlled-X (CX) gates, using the generating set of quantum gates [X, T, CX, CS]. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-10 Shelly Garion , Andrew W. Cross

We propose an approach to optimally synthesize quantum circuits from non-permutative quantum gates such as Controlled-Square-Root-of-Not (i.e. Controlled-V). Our approach reduces the synthesis problem to multiple-valued optimization and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Guowu Yang , William N. N. Hung , Xiaoyu Song , Marek Perkowski

We apply numerical optimization and linear algebra algorithms for classical computers to the problem of automatically synthesizing algorithms for quantum computers. Using our framework, we apply several common techniques from these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Yuxin Huang , Benjamin E. Grossman-Ponemon , David A. B. Hyde

We introduce a complete equational theory for the fragment of quantum circuits generated by the real Clifford gates plus the two-qubit controlled-Hadamard gate. That is, we give a simple set of equalities between circuits of this fragment,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Alexandre Clément