Structure-Aware Placement and Routing of Multi-Controlled Toffoli on Bivariate Bicycle Code Architectures

Abstract:The multi-controlled Toffoli (MCT) gate is a fundamental primitive in quantum circuit design, with applications in quantum arithmetic, cryptanalysis, and algorithmic implementations. Being a high-level logical operation, the efficient decomposition of MCT gates into lower-level netlists has remained a major optimization challenge for decades. While emerging quantum error-correcting codes such as bivariate bicycle (BB) codes drastically reduce fault-tolerance overhead, realizing non-Clifford circuits on modular BB-code architectures introduces complex compilation bottlenecks governed by inter-module routing, factory density, and layout. Consequently, the mapping of MCT gates onto BB-code architectures remains relatively unexplored. In this paper, we overcome these challenges by mapping optimal-Toffoli-depth MCT decompositions (Dutta et al., PRA, 2025) onto BB-code-based fault-tolerant architectures via direct $\lvert \mathrm{CCZ} \rangle$ state injection from an external magic state factory. We introduce a targeted placement strategy that exploits the binary-tree structure of MCT decompositions to co-locate interacting subtrees. This approach reduces inter-module instruction counts by up to $\mathbf{16.02}\%$ compared to a naive sequential first-fit placement. We also evaluate the impact of factory placement across different topologies, demonstrating that grid-based layouts yield up to a $\mathbf{23.7}\%$ reduction in inter-module instructions relative to linear architectures (Yoder et al., arXiv, 2025). Finally, we validate the practical viability of our compiled circuits by analyzing aggregate execution errors and logical failure probabilities using the bicycle-ISA error estimator bicycle_numerics provided by the Qiskit community, this https URL.

arXiv:2609.00852 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2609.00852v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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