High-Performance Exact Synthesis of Two-Qubit Quantum Circuits
Abstract
Exact synthesis provides unconditional optimality and canonical structure, but is often limited to small, carefully scoped regimes. We present an exact synthesis framework for two-qubit circuits over the Clifford+$T$ gate set that optimizes $T$-count exactly. Our approach exhausts a bounded search space, exploits algebraic canonicalization to avoid redundancy, and constructs a lookup table of optimal implementations that turns synthesis into a query. Algorithmically, we combine meet-in-the-middle ideas with provable pruning rules and problem-specific arithmetic designed for modern hardware. The result is an exact, reusable synthesis engine with substantially improved practical performance.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
Quantum Information and Cryptography
Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata
Publication details
- Journal / source
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Publication date
- 27 January 2026
- Document type
- Preprint