Unitary Gate Synthesis via Polynomial Optimization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01356v1
• Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:11:21 GMT
• Title: Unitary Gate Synthesis via Polynomial Optimization
• Authors: Llorenç Balada Gaggioli, Denys I. Bondar, Jiri Vala, Roman Ovsiannikov, Jakub Mareček,
• Abstract summary: Quantum optimal control plays a crucial role in the development of quantum technologies.<n>We present a method to synthesize gates using the Magnus expansion.<n>We show that we maintain high accuracy of QCPOP, while improving computational efficiency.
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• Abstract: Quantum optimal control plays a crucial role in the development of quantum technologies, particularly in the design and implementation of fast and accurate gates for quantum computing. Here, we present a method to synthesize gates using the Magnus expansion. In particular, we formulate a polynomial optimization problem that allows us to find the global solution without resorting to approximations of the exponential. The global method we use provides a certificate of globality and lets us do single-shot optimization, which implies it is generally faster than local methods. By optimizing over Hermitian matrices generating the unitaries, instead of the unitaries themselves, we can reduce the size of the polynomial to optimize, leading to faster convergence and better scalability, compared to the QCPOP method. Numerical experiments comparing our results with CRAB and GRAPE show that we maintain high accuracy of QCPOP, while improving computational efficiency.

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