Novel Quaternary Quantum Reversible Half Adder and Full Adder Circuits
Abdollah Norouzi Doshanlou, Majid Haghparast, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh · IETE Journal of Research · 2019
One of the major problems in designing highly compact digital systems is the rate of power consumption and internal heat generated by the loss of information during the computation. The tendency of current circuit design technologies is towards Nanoscale. Quaternary reversible logic is an emerging technology for the future designing of the quantum systems since quantum reversible circuits can be realized in Nanoscales. The adder building block is an essential part of any computer system. This block must be designed efficiently. We proposed a new quaternary quantum reversible half adder with the quantum cost of 17 and a quaternary quantum reversible full adder with a quantum cost of 23. For the first time in the literature, we report that we proposed quaternary quantum reversible half adder as well as full adder with an optimum number of constant inputs. As the circuit lines in the domain of quantum computation are considered to be a very limited resource, the achievements in this paper are promising. The proposed circuits are efficient in terms of all figures of merits in comparison to the existing counterparts. To design these adder circuits, we used 1-qudit and 2-qudit quaternary gates.