Strong unitary designs in optimal depth and space

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13491v1
• Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:19:01 GMT
• Title: Strong unitary designs in optimal depth and space
• Abstract summary: Unitary designs provide finite-moment approximations to Haar-random unitaries.<n>We show that strong unitary designs can be generated in logarithmic depth using only the system qubits.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Unitary designs provide finite-moment approximations to Haar-random unitaries, with wide-ranging applications across physics and quantum information, from scrambling and black-hole dynamics to foundational primitives in quantum algorithms. Strong unitary designs capture a more demanding operational notion of approximation, requiring indistinguishability from Haar randomness even for quantum algorithms that may access a unitary not only in the forward direction, but also through its inverse, transpose, and complex conjugate. Motivated by the physical requirement that scrambling arise within the system itself, Schuster, Ma, Lombardi, Brandão, and Huang (arXiv:2509.26310) left open whether strong unitary designs can be generated in logarithmic depth using only the system qubits. For every fixed design order $k$ and measurable-error tolerance, we construct strong approximate unitary $k$-designs in optimal $Θ(\log n)$ all-to-all circuit depth using only the $n$ original system qubits. Our new ingredient is a logarithmic-depth Pauli-mixing bound for the perfect-matching ensemble, whose layers pair the qubits uniformly at random and apply independent random two-qubit gates. This bound controls the mixed forward-reverse two-query case, which we combine with existing design and gluing results to obtain strong unitary designs of arbitrary fixed order.

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