Soft x-ray diffraction of striated muscle
S.F. Fan, W.B. Yun, et al.
Proceedings of SPIE 1989
A Hadamard-free Clifford transformation is a circuit composed of quantum Phase (P), CZ, and CNOT gates. It is known that such a circuit can be written as a three-stage computation, -P-CZ-CNOT-, where each stage consists only of gates of the specified type. In this paper, we focus on the minimization of circuit depth by entangling gates, corresponding to the important time-to-solution metric and the reduction of noise due to decoherence. We consider two popular connectivity maps: Linear Nearest Neighbor (LNN) and all-to-all. First, we show that a Hadamard-free Clifford operation can be implemented over LNN in depth 5n, i.e., in the same depth as the -CNOT- stage alone. This allows us to implement arbitrary Clifford transformation over LNN in depth no more than 7n − 4, improving the best previous upper bound of 9n. Second, we report heuristic evidence that on average a random uniformly distributed Hadamard-free Clifford transformation over n > 6 qubits can be implemented with only a tiny additive overhead over all-to-all connected architecture compared to the best-known depth-optimized implementation of the -CNOT- stage alone. This suggests the reduction of the depth of Clifford circuits from 2n+O(log2(n)) to 1.5n+O(log2(n)) over unrestricted architectures.
S.F. Fan, W.B. Yun, et al.
Proceedings of SPIE 1989
Fan Jing Meng, Ying Huang, et al.
ICEBE 2007
Nanda Kambhatla
ACL 2004
Xiaozhu Kang, Hui Zhang, et al.
ICWS 2008