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I have unitary matrix and I would find the quantum circuit associated. There are 3 qubits input so it's a 8x8 matrix but it's not a simple operation. The number of gates is not specified.

Is there a universal method ? Matrix decomposition with a software ?

Thank you!

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  • $\begingroup$ As far as I know, there is no such thing - the branch of interest is sometimes called "quantum compiling". A method you could look into is the cosine-sine decomposition, but I don't have a good link... $\endgroup$
    – Martin
    Apr 1, 2014 at 11:42
  • $\begingroup$ For any given unitary operator, there are many quantum computational networks (it is not a circuit since nothing is going in a loop) that would produce that unitary operator. A quantum computational gate is universal if, by composing instance of that gate you can produce any unitary operator to any degree of accuracy you like. The vast majority of two-qubit gates are universal: arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9505018. So you need to be more specific about what kind of decomposition you want. What gate or set of gates do you want to use? $\endgroup$
    – alanf
    Apr 1, 2014 at 11:57
  • $\begingroup$ Maybe you can find a basis of matrix and then write it in sums of them (as you do for vectors) $\endgroup$ Apr 1, 2014 at 12:07
  • $\begingroup$ In fact, I don't need to prove something. I have a given matrix and I have to design the corresponding quantum circuit. But it's a 8x8 matrix and it's no easy to see which operators (H,Z,C-U,...) I need. But I think the matrix M can be written as M = U_1*U_2*...*U_n where U_i are unitary operators but I don't know if there is a universal method for these problem ^^ $\endgroup$
    – user43639
    Apr 1, 2014 at 12:08

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The Solovay-Kitaev algorithm is a known universal method that does what you want.

Probably http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0505030 will be of interest for you.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thx ;) But I think it's too theorical. I suppose there is a more practical way. In Nielsen&Chuang, there is a -trivial- example where they use "Gray Code". $\endgroup$
    – user43639
    Apr 1, 2014 at 21:03

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