Nearest Neighbor Transformation of Quantum Circuits in 2D Architecture

• Main Authors: Xueyun Cheng, Zhijin Guan, Pengcheng Zhu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Quantum circuit; 2D grid structure; nearest neighbor; qubit placement; qubit interaction routing
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9288674/

In recent years, quantum computing has received extensive attention for its superior efficiency and application potential. For some physical architecture, one qubit can only interact with its adjacent qubits, SWAP gates are inserted to make a quantum circuit nearest neighbor compliant. The initial qubit placement algorithm in a 2D grid structure is proposed based on the constructed interaction cost metric model, and the method of dynamic grid decision is given. In order to obtain a better way of inserting SWAP gates, the gate level and circuit level interaction routing policies are put forward, and a heuristic pruning of interaction routing records is employed so as to reduce the runtime and additional quantum cost. Experimental results show that our proposed methods can achieve better performance than existing methods, and the average optimization rate of quantum cost is 21.76% and 17.23% respectively.