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arxiv: 1206.5236 · v4 · pith:I75L3A7Onew · submitted 2012-06-22 · 🪐 quant-ph · cs.ET

Fast and efficient exact synthesis of single qubit unitaries generated by Clifford and T gates

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keywords unitariescliffordcasecircuitsefficientequivalenceexactfrac
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In this paper, we show the equivalence of the set of unitaries computable by the circuits over the Clifford and T library and the set of unitaries over the ring $\mathbb{Z}[\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}},i]$, in the single-qubit case. We report an efficient synthesis algorithm, with an exact optimality guarantee on the number of Hadamard and T gates used. We conjecture that the equivalence of the sets of unitaries implementable by circuits over the Clifford and T library and unitaries over the ring $\mathbb{Z}[\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}},i]$ holds in the $n$-qubit case.

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