Measurement-based long-range entangling gates in constant depth
The depth of quantum circuits is a critical factor when running them on state-of-the-art quantum devices owing to their limited coherence times. Reducing circuit depth decreases noise in near-term quantum computations and reduces overall computation time. This also benefits fault-tolerant quantum computations. Here, we show how to reduce the depth of quantum subroutines that typically scale linearly with the number of qubits, such as quantum fan-out and long-range CNOT gates, to a constant depth using mid-circuit measurements and feedforward operations, while only requiring a 1D line topology. We compare our protocols with existing ones to highlight their advantages. Additionally, we verify the feasibility by implementing the measurement-based quantum fan-out gate and long-range CNOT gate on real quantum hardware, demonstrating significant improvements over their unitary implementations.
Authors
- Elisa Bäumer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1882-8693)
- Stefan Woerner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5945-4707)
Institutions
- IBM Research - Zurich (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Research
- Published
- 2025-05-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.7.023120
- Citations
- 17
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 42.18
Funders
- International Business Machines Corporation