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arxiv: 1401.7883 · v2 · pith:TCWUQRMBnew · submitted 2014-01-30 · 🧮 math-ph · math.MP· quant-ph

Scaling a unitary matrix

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keywords matrixarbitraryunitaryallowsentriesequalfindline
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The iterative method of Sinkhorn allows, starting from an arbitrary real matrix with non-negative entries, to find a so-called 'scaled matrix' which is doubly stochastic, i.e. a matrix with all entries in the interval (0, 1) and with all line sums equal to 1. We conjecture that a similar procedure exists, which allows, starting from an arbitrary unitary matrix, to find a scaled matrix which is unitary and has all line sums equal to 1. The existence of such algorithm guarantees a powerful decomposition of an arbitrary quantum circuit.

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