Adder Circuit on IBM Universal Quantum Computers

Abstract

This paper reports the experiments on IBM quantum devices. We design an adder circuit based on Thomas G. Draper proposal. This circuit is a part of a general circuit to build Shor prime number factorization algorithm. We perform the experiments on three IBM quantum devices. The result of the experiment shows that on IBM Essex device, the best possible adder for one qubits has 100% accuracy. However, the results for two qubits adder circuit are much worse. The details analysis of the accuracy of three IBM devices are reported.