Optimal Quantum-Circuit Synthesis and Implementation of General Unitaries with Parallelized Bitstring-Conditioned Rotations

Abstract

We theoretically introduce a quantum-circuit synthesis protocol to realize any $n$-qubit transformation $U\in U(2^n)$, up to a diagonal. The resulting circuit is directly native to and optimal in gate count and depth for systems where bitstring-conditioned rotations with tunable angle and axis, $C^{(n-1)}R(\theta,\phi)$, form the set of native operations. Subsequently, we suggest how this protocol can be implemented in a few-mode superconducting circuit, and experimentally demonstrate the method for the smallest nontrivial case, i.e., for two qubits. We report an average gate fidelity of 97.6 % for Haar-random two-qubit unitaries up to phase shifts in the computational basis. Importantly, these results suggest that multimode devices, such as those in the multimon or multiunimon families may become competitive with qubit-array networks for general-unitary implementations for qubit counts as low as three.