Synthesis of unitaries with Clifford+T circuits

preprint2013arXivOpen access

Abstract

We describe a new method for approximating an arbitrary nn qubit unitary with precision ε\varepsilon using a Clifford and T circuit with O(4nn(log⁡(1/ε)+n))O(4^{n}n(\log(1/\varepsilon)+n)) gates. The method is based on rounding off a unitary to a unitary over the ring Z[i,1/2]\mathbb{Z}[i,1/\sqrt{2}] and employing exact synthesis. We also show that any nn qubit unitary over the ring Z[i,1/2]\mathbb{Z}[i,1/\sqrt{2}] with entries of the form (a+b2+ic+id2)/2k(a+b\sqrt{2}+ic+id\sqrt{2})/2^{k} can be exactly synthesized using O(4nnk)O(4^{n}nk) Clifford and T gates using two ancillary qubits. This new exact synthesis algorithm is an improvement over the best known exact synthesis method by B. Giles and P. Selinger requiring O(32nnk)O(3^{2^{n}}nk) elementary gates.

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