Efficient quantum circuits for binary elliptic curve arithmetic: reducing T-gate complexity

  • Authors:
  • Brittanney Amento;Martin Rötteler;Rainer Steinwandt

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL;NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ;Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

  • Venue:
  • Quantum Information & Computation
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Elliptic curves over finite fields F2n play a prominent role in modern cryptography. Published quantum algorithms dealing with such curves build on a short Weierstrass form in combination with affine or projective coordinates. In this paper we show that changing the curve representation allows a substantial reduction in the number of T-gates needed to implement the curve arithmetic. As a tool, we present a quantum circuit for computing multiplicative inverses in F2n in depth O(n log2 n) using a polynomial basis representation, which may be of independent interest.