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Efficient decomposition of quantum gates.

Juha J Vartiainen1, Mikko Möttönen, Martti M Salomaa

  • 1Materials Physics Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, POB 2200 (Technical Physics), FIN-02015 HUT, Finland. juhav@focus.hut.fi

Physical Review Letters
|June 1, 2004
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This study presents an optimized method for implementing quantum gates, crucial for quantum computing. The new approach reduces the number of elementary gates, including Controlled NOT gates, to an optimal level.

Area of Science:

  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Information Science

Background:

  • Efficient implementation of quantum gates is essential for building scalable quantum computers.
  • Current methods for decomposing multiqubit gates can be resource-intensive.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an optimized quantum circuit construction for arbitrary multiqubit gates.
  • To reduce the number of elementary gates required for gate implementation.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the matrix representation of multiqubit gates.
  • Employed Gray code ordering for basis vectors to construct the quantum circuit.
  • Implemented an optimization step to eliminate superfluous control bits.

Main Results:

  • Developed a quantum circuit construction equivalent to arbitrary multiqubit gates.

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  • Achieved optimality in terms of fully controlled single-qubit gates.
  • Reduced the total number of elementary gates, with Controlled NOT gates scaling as O(4(n)).

    • Conclusions:

    • The proposed scheme provides an efficient method for implementing multiqubit quantum gates.
    • The number of Controlled NOT gates achieved matches the theoretical lower bound, indicating high optimization.
    • This work contributes to the design of more efficient quantum circuits for quantum computation.