High-Performance Exact Synthesis of Two-Qubit Quantum Circuits

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Authors: Andrew N. Glaudell, Michael Jarret, Swan Klein, Samuel S. Mendelson, T. C. Mooney, Mingzhen Tian
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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