Every architecture of six two-qubit gates is locally universal on three qubits

Quantum Physics arXiv:2609.22176 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 27 Aug 2026] Title:Every architecture of six two-qubit gates is locally universal on three qubits Authors:Hyunho Cha, Jungwoo Lee View a PDF of the paper titled Every architecture of six two-qubit gates is locally universal on three qubits, by Hyunho Cha and Jungwoo Lee View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:We present the \emph{first} analytical determination of the exact accessible dimension for every fixed architecture of arbitrary two-qubit gates on three qubits. A support word represents which pair of qubits each two-qubit gate acts on, and its reduced length is obtained by merging consecutive gates on the same pair. If the reduced length is $r$, then the set of implementable three-qubit unitaries has accessible dimension $d(w)=\min\{63,9r+9\}$. Consequently, six arbitrary two-qubit gates are \emph{necessary and sufficient for local universality}: every fixed architecture reaches a nonempty open subset of $\mathrm{SU}(8)$ when its reduced length is at least six. The result is stronger than existence of one favorable architecture. Every reduced six-slot support word is locally universal, including the alternating nearest-neighbor line $AB,BC,AB,BC,AB,BC$. The upper bound follows from a standard parameter-counting argument. The matching lower bounds are proved by Jacobian certificates in the Pauli basis. Up to qubit relabeling and reversal, there are $22$ reduced architectures of lengths two through six. For each one, a product of rational Pauli rotations yields a nonzero maximal minor modulo the prime $1{,}000{,}003$. Thus, any obstruction to global universality with six two-qubit gates must go beyond parameter counting, connectivity, and differential rank. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2609.22176 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2609.22176v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.22176 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Hyunho Cha [view email] [v1] Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:35:39 UTC (20 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Every architecture of six two-qubit gates is locally universal on three qubits, by Hyunho Cha and Jungwoo LeeView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-09 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)