Separation of gates in quantum parallel programming

Abstract

The number of qubits in current quantum computers is a major restriction on their wider application. To address this issue, Ying conceived of using two or more small-capacity quantum computers to produce a larger-capacity quantum computing system by quantum parallel programming ([M. S. Ying, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2016]). In doing so, the main obstacle is separating the quantum gates in the whole circuit to produce a tensor product of the local gates. In this study, we theoretically analyse the (sufficient and necessary) separability conditions of multipartite quantum gates in finite or infinite dimensional systems. We then conduct separation experiments with n-qubit quantum gates on IBM quantum computers using QSI software.