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Optimal Partitioning of Quantum Circuits Using Gate Cuts and Wire Cuts

December 26, 2023Sebastian BrandhoferQuantum SoftwareLogic gates, Quantum circuit, Quantum computing, Qubit, Runtime, Teleportation, Wires

A limited number of qubits, high error rates, and limited qubit connectivity are major challenges for effective near-term quantum computations. Quantum circuit partitioning divides a quantum computation into classical postprocessing steps and a set of smaller scale quantum computations that individually require fewer qubits, lower qubit connectivity, and typically incur less error. However, as partitioning […]

Reducing the Cost of Implementing the Advanced Encryption Standard as a Quantum Circuit

To quantify security levels in a postquantum scenario, it is common to use the quantum resources needed to attack the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) as a reference value. Specifically, in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s ongoing postquantum standardization effort, different security categories are defined that reflect the quantum resources needed to attack AES-128, […]