USTC Pioneers Quantum Circuit Equivalence Verification Leveraging Nonlocality
2025-01-09

A team led by Academician Guo Guangcan at our university has achieved a significant breakthrough in the experimental exploration of quantum circuit equivalence. Collaborating with Wei Chaohui from Tsinghua University, Li Chuanfeng, Liu Biheng, and their colleagues have, for the first time, successfully verified quantum circuit equivalence utilizing Bell nonlocality. Their groundbreaking findings were published in Physical Review Letters on December 23. This research tackles the formidable challenge of verifying quantum circuit equivalence, a cornerstone for ensuring the precision of quantum algorithm compilation and enhancing the efficiency of circuit optimization.