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View SchemaA new quantum ripple-carry addition circuit
| Authors | Steven A. Cuccaro, Thomas G. Draper, Samuel A. Kutin, David Petrie Moulton |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0410184 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0410184 |
Abstract
We present a new linear-depth ripple-carry quantum addition circuit. Previous addition circuits required linearly many ancillary qubits; our new adder uses only a single ancillary qubit. Also, our circuit has lower depth and fewer gates than previous ripple-carry adders.
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