%0 Journal Article %J Quantum %D 2021 %T Quantum routing with fast reversals %A Aniruddha Bapat %A Andrew M. Childs %A Alexey V. Gorshkov %A Samuel King %A Eddie Schoute %A Hrishee Shastri %X

We present methods for implementing arbitrary permutations of qubits under interaction constraints. Our protocols make use of previous methods for rapidly reversing the order of qubits along a path. Given nearest-neighbor interactions on a path of length n, we show that there exists a constant ϵ≈0.034 such that the quantum routing time is at most (1−ϵ)n, whereas any swap-based protocol needs at least time n−1. This represents the first known quantum advantage over swap-based routing methods and also gives improved quantum routing times for realistic architectures such as grids. Furthermore, we show that our algorithm approaches a quantum routing time of 2n/3 in expectation for uniformly random permutations, whereas swap-based protocols require time n asymptotically. Additionally, we consider sparse permutations that route k≤n qubits and give algorithms with quantum routing time at most n/3+O(k2) on paths and at most 2r/3+O(k2) on general graphs with radius r.

%B Quantum %V 5 %8 8/24/2021 %G eng %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03264 %& 533 %R https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2021-08-31-533