{"paper":{"title":"Statistical distribution of the reversible gates: what percentage of them are self-inverse?","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"quant-ph","authors_text":"Anirban Pathak","submitted_at":"2013-09-16T17:01:57Z","abstract_excerpt":"It is well known that most of the frequently used reversible logic gates (e.g., NOT, CNOT, SWAP, Toffoli, Fredkin) are self-inverse and are represented by square matrices that are unitary and Hermitian. However, with a simple minded argument, it is established that the most of the allowed reversible gates are non-self-inverse (unitary but non-Hermitian) in nature. It is also shown that the % of non-Hermitian gates increases with the dimension. For example, 58.33% of the 2-bit gates, 98.10% of the 3-bit gates and 99.99% of the 4-bit gates are non-Hermitian. As classical reversible gates are ess"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1309.4037","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}