CIQS: A Scalable Pipeline for Processing Quantum Circuits Beyond 1,000,000 Qubits
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Description
CIQS (Causal Iteration Quantum Solution) is a fully analytic, plug-and-play quantum circuit compilation pipeline. It scales to 1,000,000 qubits at linear cost, with:
- no simulation,
- no approximation,
- no heuristic search,
- no tunable parameters.
Composed of a mapper/router and an optimizer, it natively handles quDits of any dimension ( qubit, qutrit, ququart, and above ) with no additional parameters required. The optimizer scans the circuit once and applies three removal passes in sequence:
- Pass1 removes individual redundant gates,
- Pass2 removes gate sequences impossible to remove individually,
- Pass3 removes gates the target device cannot execute faithfully, at zero fidelity cost, based on vendor-supplied hardware calibration data.
Benchmarked with IBM's Benchpress suite across four circuit families and two hardware topologies, on an AMD Ryzen 5 (2019 consumer desktop, 32 GB RAM).Raw benchmark data provided as ancillary files (Ancillary_Data_100k.json & 1_million_qubits_DATA.json).
**CIQS has now a new optional 1:5 Error Correction module, necessary only for matter qubits: More on the 1:5 error correction
The CIQS pipeline including CIQM (mapper/router) and CIQO (optimizer) is freely available for non-commercial use:
https://github.com/GamesOfArcadia/ciqs
Edit (v2): One numerical error in v1 corrected.
Edit (v3): Benchmark extended to 1,000,000 qubits. Native quDit support added. Hardware calibration pass added.
Edit (v3) March 30th: Minor editing mistakes corrected.
Files
CIQS A Scalable Pipeline for Processing Quantum Circuits Beyond 1.000.000 v3.pdf
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References
- (2026). CIQS: A Scalable Pipeline for Processing Quantum Circuits Beyond 1,000,000 Qubits. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18750723