Quantum Technology Initiative Journal Club

Thursday 26 Sept 2024, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

513/R-070 - Openlab Space (CERN)

Michele Grossi (CERN)

Weekly Journal Club meetings organised in the framework of the CERN Quantum Technology Initiative (QTI) to present and discuss scientific papers in the field of quantum science and technology. The goal is to help researchers keep track of current findings and walk away with ideas for their own research. Some previous knowledge of quantum physics would be helpful, but is not required to follow the talks.

To propose a paper for discussion, contact: michele.grossi@cern.ch

16:00 → 17:00 CERN QTI Journal CLUB: TITLE

Convener: Dr Michele Grossi (CERN)

16:00 Carla Rieger (CERN QTI)

TITLE: PCOAST: A Pauli-based Quantum Circuit Optimization Framework
Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10966

Abstract:
This paper presents the Pauli-based Circuit Optimization, Analysis, and Synthesis Toolchain (PCOAST), a framework for quantum circuit optimizations based on the commutative properties of Pauli strings. Prior work has demonstrated that commuting Clifford gates past Pauli rotations can expose opportunities for optimization in unitary circuits. PCOAST extends that approach by adapting the technique to mixed unitary and non-unitary circuits via generalized preparation and measurement nodes parameterized by Pauli strings. The result is the PCOAST graph, which enables novel optimizations based on whether a user needs to preserve the quantum state after executing the circuit, or whether they only need to preserve the measurement outcomes. Finally, the framework adapts a highly tunable greedy synthesis algorithm to implement the PCOAST graph with a given gate set.
PCOAST is implemented as a set of compiler passes in the Intel Quantum SDK. In this paper, we evaluate its compilation performance against two leading quantum compilers, Qiskit and tket. We find that PCOAST reduces total gate count by 32.53% and 43.33% on average, compared to to the best performance achieved by Qiskit and tket respectively, two-qubit gates by 29.22% and 20.58%, and circuit depth by 42.02% and 51.27%.

Speaker: Carla Sophie Rieger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))

qti-journal_club_pcoast.pdf

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