Abstract
Given an arbitrary unitary matrix , a powerful matrix decomposition can be applied, leading to four different syntheses of a -qubit quantum circuit performing the unitary transformation. The demonstration is based on a recent theorem by H. Führ and Z. Rzeszotnik [Linear Algebra Its Appl. 484, 86 (2015)] generalizing the scaling of single-bit unitary gates () to gates with arbitrary value of . The synthesized circuit consists of controlled one-qubit gates, such as negator gates and phasor gates. Interestingly, the approach reduces to a known synthesis method for classical logic circuits consisting of controlled not gates in the case that is a permutation matrix.
- Received 31 May 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.052317
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