Krysta Svore (Microsoft) - Probabilistic Quantum Circuit Decomposition

Event time: 
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 12:00am to 1:00pm
Location: 
Sloan Lab room 57
Event description: 

Krysta Svore is the leader of the Quantum Architectures Group (QuARC) at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, and widely known for her work on quantum algorithms and fault-tolerant architectures.

YQI.Krysta will speak about the Probabilistic Quantum Circuit Decomposition.

Recently it has been shown that Repeat-Until-Success (RUS) circuits can approximate a given single-qubit unitary with an expected number of T gates of about 1/3 of what is required by optimal, deterministic, ancilla-free decompositions over the Clifford+T gate set. In this work, we introduce a more general and conceptually simpler circuit decomposition method that allows for synthesis into protocols that probabilistically implement quantum circuits over several universal gate sets including, but not restricted to, the Clifford+T gate set. The protocol, which we call Probabilistic Quantum Circuits with Fallback (PQF), implements a walk on a discrete Markov chain in which the target unitary is an absorbing state and in which transitions are induced by multi-qubit unitaries followed by measurements. In contrast to RUS protocols, the presented PQF protocols terminate after a finite number of steps. Specifically, we apply our method to the Clifford+T, Clifford+V, and Clifford+π/12 gate sets to achieve decompositions with expected gate counts of logb(1/ε)+O(log(log(1/ε))), where b is a quantity related to the expansion property of the underlying universal gate set.

Joint work with Alex Bocharov and Martin Roetteler. http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3552, http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5320, http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1074

This seminar is a joint effort of the Condensed Matter Theory Group and the YQI.