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"Qubit routing" refers to the task of modifying quantum circuits so that they satisfy the connectivity constraints of a target quantum computer. This involves inserting SWAP gates into the circuit so that the logical gates only ever occur…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-03 Matteo G. Pozzi , Steven J. Herbert , Akash Sengupta , Robert D. Mullins

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

Qubit routing is a fundamental problem in quantum compilation, known to be NP-hard. Its dynamic nature makes local routing decisions propagate and compound over time, making global efficient solutions challenging. Existing heuristic methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Kien X. Nguyen , Ankit Kulshrestha , Ilya Safro , Xiaoyuan Liu

This paper addresses the problem of qubit routing in first-generation and other near-term quantum computers. In particular, it is asserted that the qubit routing problem can be formulated as a reinforcement learning (RL) problem, and that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Steven Herbert , Akash Sengupta

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

Executing quantum circuits on currently available quantum computers requires compiling them to a representation that conforms to all restrictions imposed by the targeted architecture. Due to the limited connectivity of the devices' physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Lukas Burgholzer , Sarah Schneider , Robert Wille

Quantum Annealing (QA) is a quantum computing paradigm for solving combinatorial optimization problems formulated as Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems. An essential step in QA is minor embedding, which maps the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Riccardo Nembrini , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

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

For a specific quantum chip, multi-programming helps to improve overall throughput and resource utilization. However, the previous solutions for mapping multiple programs onto a quantum chip often lead to resource under-utilization, high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Lei Liu , Xinglei Dou

One of the key compilation steps in Quantum Computing (QC) is to determine an initial logical to physical mapping of the qubits used in a quantum circuit. The impact of the starting qubit layout can vastly affect later scheduling and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Blake Gerard , Martin Kong

In this work we propose a high-quality decomposition approach for qubit routing by swap insertion. This optimization problem arises in the context of compiling quantum algorithms onto specific quantum hardware. Our approach decomposes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Friedrich Wagner , Andreas Bärmann , Frauke Liers , Markus Weissenbäck

The practical realization of quantum programs that require large-scale qubit systems is hindered by current technological limitations. Distributed Quantum Computing (DQC) presents a viable path to scalability by interconnecting multiple…

Quantum computing is an emerging technology that has the potential to revolutionize fields such as cryptography, machine learning, optimization, and quantum simulation. However, a major challenge in the realization of quantum algorithms on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Robert Wille , Lukas Burgholzer

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 qubit mapping problem (QMP) focuses on the mapping and routing of qubits in quantum circuits so that the strict connectivity constraints imposed by near-term quantum hardware are satisfied. QMP is a pivotal task for quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Yunqi Huang , Xiangzhen Zhou , Fanxu Meng , Sanjiang Li

Efficient quantum compiling tactics greatly enhance the capability of quantum computers to execute complicated quantum algorithms. Due to its fundamental importance, a plethora of quantum compilers has been designed in past years. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 Qiuhao Chen , Yuxuan Du , Qi Zhao , Yuling Jiao , Xiliang Lu , Xingyao Wu

Near-term quantum computers will operate in a noisy environment, without error correction. A critical problem for near-term quantum computing is laying out a logical circuit onto a physical device with limited connectivity between qubits.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Abtin Molavi , Amanda Xu , Martin Diges , Lauren Pick , Swamit Tannu , Aws Albarghouthi

Quantum chemistry and optimization are two of the most prominent applications of quantum computers. Variational quantum algorithms have been proposed for solving problems in these domains. However, the design of the quantum circuit ansatz…

Compiling a high-level quantum circuit down to a low-level description that can be executed on state-of-the-art quantum computers is a crucial part of the software stack for quantum computing. One step in compiling a quantum circuit to some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Tom Peham , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) on the graph with real-life applications are canonical challenges in Computer Science. The difficulty of finding quality labels for problem instances holds back leveraging supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Mostafa Pashazadeh , Kui Wu
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