Minimum Toffoli depth for the multi-controlled Toffoli gate via teleportation

Abstract:The decomposition of complex quantum operations into experimentally feasible gate sets has been a central challenge since the early development of quantum computing. The multi-controlled Toffoli (MCT) gate is a key example, with applications across a wide range of quantum algorithms, whose decomposition into smaller gates, however, typically leads to deep circuits. In this work, we introduce a teleportation-based decomposition that implements an MCT gate. This decomposition has unit Toffoli depth, independent of the number of controls, while achieving the lowest Toffoli count among existing approaches for more than five controls at the cost of a linear overhead in ancilla qubits. We also investigate the parameter regimes in which the teleportation-based decomposition is preferable by analyzing the relative quality of distributed entanglement and Toffoli gates. We further demonstrate the advantages of this implementation in circuits that rely on MCT gates, such as the adder operator, quantum read-only memory, quantum neurons, and quantum decision trees.

arXiv:2604.25861 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2604.25861v2 [quant-ph] for this version)

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