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I know the Solovay-Kitaev algorithm can achieve this. Is there an implementation of this or any other algorithm for the same task in Qiskit? Or perhaps some other library that interfaces well with Qiskit?

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On the Qiskit front, a Solovay-Kitaev algorithm implementation is on its way https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-terra/pull/5657.

If you want to use or have a look to this LNoorl:feature/sk-pass branch (remember is a WIP), you can install it like this:

pip install git+https://github.com/LNoorl/qiskit-terra.git@feature/sk-pass

Here is a usage example:

from qiskit.circuit import QuantumCircuit
from qiskit.circuit.library import TGate, HGate, TdgGate
from qiskit.transpiler.passes import SolovayKitaevDecomposition

circuit = QuantumCircuit(1)
circuit.rx(0.7, 0)

print('Orginal circuit:')
print(circuit)

basis_gates = [TGate(), TdgGate(), HGate()]
skd = SolovayKitaevDecomposition(recursion_degree=2, basis_gates=basis_gates, depth=5)

discretized = skd(circuit)

print('Discretized circuit:')
print(discretized)
Orginal circuit:
     ┌─────────┐
q_0: ┤ RX(0.7) ├
     └─────────┘
Discretized circuit:
global phase: -π/8
     ┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌─────┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌─────┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐»
q_0: ┤ H ├┤ T ├┤ H ├┤ TDG ├┤ H ├┤ T ├┤ H ├┤ T ├┤ H ├┤ TDG ├┤ H ├┤ T ├┤ H ├»
     └───┘└───┘└───┘└─────┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└─────┘└───┘└───┘└───┘»
«     ┌─────┐┌───┐┌─────┐┌─────┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌─────┐»
«q_0: ┤ TDG ├┤ H ├┤ TDG ├┤ TDG ├┤ H ├┤ T ├┤ H ├┤ T ├┤ T ├┤ H ├┤ T ├┤ H ├┤ TDG ├»
«     └─────┘└───┘└─────┘└─────┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└─────┘»
«     ┌─────┐┌───┐┌─────┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌─────┐┌───┐┌─────┐»
«q_0: ┤ TDG ├┤ H ├┤ TDG ├┤ H ├┤ T ├┤ H ├┤ T ├┤ H ├┤ T ├┤ H ├┤ TDG ├┤ H ├┤ TDG ├»
«     └─────┘└───┘└─────┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└─────┘└───┘└─────┘»
«     ┌─────┐┌───┐┌─────┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌─────┐
«q_0: ┤ TDG ├┤ H ├┤ TDG ├┤ H ├┤ T ├┤ T ├┤ H ├┤ T ├┤ H ├┤ TDG ├
«     └─────┘└───┘└─────┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└─────┘
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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks for this answer! Can I use any universal set of basis gates? $\endgroup$
    – shashvat
    Apr 22, 2021 at 12:33
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    $\begingroup$ you can try any basis set, even when it is not universal. However, universal sets will work with any circuit in the universe :P $\endgroup$
    – luciano
    Apr 23, 2021 at 9:52
  • $\begingroup$ It only decomposes single qubit gates though right? Line 94 here github.com/LNoorl/qiskit-terra/blob/master/qiskit/transpiler/… $\endgroup$
    – shashvat
    Apr 26, 2021 at 10:53
  • $\begingroup$ @luciano, I'm trying to run skd = SolovayKitaevDecomposition(recursion_degree=2, basis_gates=basis_gates, depth=5) but I get an error __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'basis_gates'. How do I fix this? Also, it seems the location of the algorithm is now at from qiskit.transpiler.synthesis.solovay_kitaev. $\endgroup$
    – MonteNero
    Oct 11, 2022 at 23:17

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