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Quantum Circuit Transformation Based on Simulated Annealing and Heuristic Search
Xiangzhen Zhou, Sanjiang Li, Yuan Feng
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Quantum algorithm design usually assumes access to a perfect quantum computer with ideal properties like full connectivity, noise-freedom and arbitrarily long coherence time. In Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, however, the number of qubits is highly limited and quantum operation error and qubit coherence are not negligible. Besides, the connectivity of physical qubits in a quantum processing unit (QPU) is also strictly constrained. Thereby, additional operations like SWAP gates have to be inserted to satisfy this constraint while preserving the functionality of the original circuit. This process is known as quantum circuit transformation. Adding additional gates will increase both the size and depth of a quantum circuit and therefore cause further decay of the performance of a quantum circuit. Thus it is crucial to minimize the number of added gates. In this paper, we propose an efficient method to solve this problem. We first choose by using simulated annealing an initial mapping which fits well with the input circuit and then, with the help of a heuristic cost function, stepwise apply the best selected SWAP gates until all quantum gates in the circuit can be executed. Our algorithm runs in time polynomial in all parameters including the size and the qubit number of the input circuit, and the qubit number in the QPU. Its space complexity is quadratic to the number of edges in the QPU. Experimental results on extensive realistic circuits confirm that the proposed method is efficient and can reduce by 57% on average the size of the output circuits when compared with the state-of-the-art algorithm on the most recent IBM quantum device viz. IBM Q20 (Tokyo).
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