Synthesis and Arithmetic of Single Qutrit Circuits

In this paper we study single qutrit circuits consisting of words over the Clifford$+\mathcal{D}$ cyclotomic gate set, where $\mathcal{D}=\text{diag}(\pm\xi^{a},\pm\xi^{b},\pm\xi^{c})$, $\xi$ is a primitive $9$-th root of unity and $a,b,c$ are integers. We characterize classes of qutrit unit vectors...

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Main Authors: Amolak Ratan Kalra, Michele Mosca, Dinesh Valluri
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Published: Verein zur Förderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 2025-02-01
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Online Access:https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2025-02-26-1647/pdf/
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description In this paper we study single qutrit circuits consisting of words over the Clifford$+\mathcal{D}$ cyclotomic gate set, where $\mathcal{D}=\text{diag}(\pm\xi^{a},\pm\xi^{b},\pm\xi^{c})$, $\xi$ is a primitive $9$-th root of unity and $a,b,c$ are integers. We characterize classes of qutrit unit vectors $z$ with entries in $\mathbb{Z}[\xi, \frac{1}{\chi}]$ based on the possibility of reducing their smallest denominator exponent (sde) with respect to $\chi := 1 – \xi,$ by acting an appropriate gate in Clifford$+\mathcal{D}$. We do this by studying the notion of `derivatives mod $3$' of an arbitrary element of $\mathbb{Z}[\xi]$ and using it to study the smallest denominator exponent of $H\mathcal{D}z$ where $H$ is the qutrit Hadamard gate and $\mathcal{D}$. In addition, we reduce the problem of finding all unit vectors of a given sde to that of finding integral solutions of a positive definite quadratic form along with some additional constraints. As a consequence we prove that the Clifford$+\mathcal{D}$ gates naturally arise as gates with sde $0$ and $3$ in the group $U(3,\mathbb{Z}[\xi, \frac{1}{\chi}])$ of $3 \times 3$ unitaries with entries in $\mathbb{Z}[\xi, \frac{1}{\chi}]$. We illustrate the general applicability of these methods to obtain an exact synthesis algorithm for Clifford$+R$ and recover the previously known exact synthesis algorithm of Kliuchnikov, Maslov, Mosca (2012). The framework developed to formulate qutrit gate synthesis for Clifford$+\mathcal{D}$ extends to qudits of arbitrary prime power.
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spelling doaj-art-d222b43efb704f6b87b07cd6921032742025-08-20T02:01:09ZengVerein zur Förderung des Open Access Publizierens in den QuantenwissenschaftenQuantum2521-327X2025-02-019164710.22331/q-2025-02-26-164710.22331/q-2025-02-26-1647Synthesis and Arithmetic of Single Qutrit CircuitsAmolak Ratan KalraMichele MoscaDinesh ValluriIn this paper we study single qutrit circuits consisting of words over the Clifford$+\mathcal{D}$ cyclotomic gate set, where $\mathcal{D}=\text{diag}(\pm\xi^{a},\pm\xi^{b},\pm\xi^{c})$, $\xi$ is a primitive $9$-th root of unity and $a,b,c$ are integers. We characterize classes of qutrit unit vectors $z$ with entries in $\mathbb{Z}[\xi, \frac{1}{\chi}]$ based on the possibility of reducing their smallest denominator exponent (sde) with respect to $\chi := 1 – \xi,$ by acting an appropriate gate in Clifford$+\mathcal{D}$. We do this by studying the notion of `derivatives mod $3$' of an arbitrary element of $\mathbb{Z}[\xi]$ and using it to study the smallest denominator exponent of $H\mathcal{D}z$ where $H$ is the qutrit Hadamard gate and $\mathcal{D}$. In addition, we reduce the problem of finding all unit vectors of a given sde to that of finding integral solutions of a positive definite quadratic form along with some additional constraints. As a consequence we prove that the Clifford$+\mathcal{D}$ gates naturally arise as gates with sde $0$ and $3$ in the group $U(3,\mathbb{Z}[\xi, \frac{1}{\chi}])$ of $3 \times 3$ unitaries with entries in $\mathbb{Z}[\xi, \frac{1}{\chi}]$. We illustrate the general applicability of these methods to obtain an exact synthesis algorithm for Clifford$+R$ and recover the previously known exact synthesis algorithm of Kliuchnikov, Maslov, Mosca (2012). The framework developed to formulate qutrit gate synthesis for Clifford$+\mathcal{D}$ extends to qudits of arbitrary prime power.https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2025-02-26-1647/pdf/
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