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Cutting Quantum Circuits Beyond Qubits

Published: January 5, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.02064v1

By: Manav Seksaria, Anil Prabhakar

Potential Business Impact:

Lets supercomputers work on harder problems.

Business Areas:
Quantum Computing Science and Engineering

We extend quantum circuit cutting to heterogeneous registers comprising mixed-dimensional qudits. By decomposing non-local interactions into tensor products of local generalised Gell-Mann matrices, we enable the simulation and execution of high-dimensional circuits on disconnected hardware fragments. We validate this framework on qubit--qutrit ($2$--$3$) interfaces, achieving exact state reconstruction with a Total Variation Distance of 0 within single-precision floating-point tolerance. Furthermore, we demonstrate the memory advantage in an 8-particle, dimension-8 system, reducing memory usage from 128 MB to 64 KB per circuit.

Page Count
4 pages

Category
Physics:
Quantum Physics