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End-to-End Fidelity Analysis of Quantum Circuit Optimization: From Gate-Level Transformations to Pulse-Level Control

Rylan Malarchick · 2026 · arXiv

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Abstract (excerpt)

We present an analysis of quantum circuit fidelity across the full compilation stack, from high-level gate optimization through pulse-level control. We connect a C++ circuit optimizer to a per-gate Lindblad master-equation fidelity model whose decoherence channels are cross-validated against qiskit-dynamics and whose absolute predictions are benchmarked against execution on real hardware. Across a campaign of 4,452 experiment runs over 371 benchmark circuits, gate cancellation provides the dominant improvement ($d = 1.66$, 72% of circuits improved), while circuit size and pulse duration are th

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