Decomposition of unitary matrices and quantum gates

A general scheme is presented to decompose a $d$-by-$d$ unitary matrix as the product of two-level unitary matrices with additional structure and prescribed determinants. In particular, the decomposition can be done by using two-level matrices in $d-1$ classes, where each class is isomorphic to the group of $2\times 2$ unitary matrices. The proposed scheme is easy to apply, and useful in treating problems with the additional structural restrictions. A Matlab program is written to implement the scheme, and the result is used to deduce the fact that every quantum gate acting on $n$-qubit registers can be expressed as no more than $2^{n-1}(2^n-1)$ fully controlled single-qubit gates chosen from $2^n-1$ classes, where the quantum gates in each class share the same $n-1$ control qubits. Moreover, it is shown that it is easy to adjust the proposed decomposition scheme to take advantage of additional structure evolving in the process.

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