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Two-qubit Synthesis

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Explore foundational research through preprint papers, scholarly articles, and textbooks that introduce, use, and extend this technique.

This paper describes a technique to resynthesize a general 4x4 unitary gate in SU(4) with three CNOT gates.

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This work presents tests to determine if a two-qubit operator requires 0, 1, 2 or 3 CNOT gates, and an algorithm to synthesize the appropriate two-qubit circuits.

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qml.ops.two_qubit_decomposition

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Two-Qubit Decomposition

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