Rethinking Quantum Circuits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19370v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:39:27 GMT
• Title: Rethinking Quantum Circuits
• Abstract summary: The development begins at the level of bits and qubits before appealing to Deutsch's and Grover's algorithms as basic examples of quantum circuits.<n>We consider how to correct quantum circuits by introducing the Knill--Laflamme condition, homological surface codes, and related concepts.<n>The lectures eventually arrive at the properties of hyperbolic quantum codes and the prospect of physical superconducting circuits.
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• Abstract: These notes develop four interconnected ways of reading a quantum circuit. A circuit for us begins as an operational composition of gates; then, it becomes a diagram whose local equalities may be used as calculations; next, it becomes a protected process once errors, syndromes, and logical degrees of freedom are separated; and finally, it becomes geometric when its connectivity, topology, and boundary data are treated as physical design parameters. The development begins at the level of bits and qubits before appealing to Deutsch's and Grover's algorithms as basic examples of quantum circuits. With the basics in hand, we interpret quantum circuits diagramatically, leading us to compact closed string diagrams and the ZX-calculus. After that, we consider how to correct quantum circuits by introducing the Knill--Laflamme condition, homological surface codes, and related concepts with a view towards thinking of these as operations on diagrams. The lectures eventually arrive at the properties of hyperbolic quantum codes and the prospect of physical superconducting circuits emulating the negatively-curved lattices needed to support those codes. These mathematical ideas and physical experiments, taken together, represent one way to impart a geometric layer onto quantum circuits. By the very end, we bring the ideas nearly full circle by assessing the extent to which these device physics experiments operationalize the basic ZX diagrams encountered much earlier in the story. While the later material reports on original research, and while the discussion becomes increasingly mathematical as the sections progress, no prior knowledge of quantum information, quantum computing, or quantum error correction is actually assumed.

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