Abstract

We introduce canonical forms for single qutrit Clifford+T circuits and prove that every single-qutrit Clifford+T operator admits a unique such canonical form. We show that our canonical forms are T-optimal in the sense that among all the single-qutrit Clifford+T circuits implementing a given operator our canonical form uses the least number of T gates. Finally, we provide an algorithm which inputs the description of an operator (as a matrix or a circuit) and constructs the canonical form for this operator. The algorithm runs in time linear in the number of T gates. Our results provide a higher-dimensional generalization of prior work by Matsumoto and Amano who introduced similar canonical forms for single-qubit Clifford+T circuits. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Publication Details
Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2019
Volume
406
Number of Pages
54-70
DOI
10.1016/j.aop.2019.04.001
Journal
Annals of Physics
Contributors
Date Published
04/2019