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Decomposition of a $4 \times 4$ unitary matrix

That paper appears to do their rotations in a very strange order. The method you're interested in is how to use Givens rotations to perform a QR decomposition (see, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Decomposition of a $4 \times 4$ unitary matrix

Note the following: if we have a vector with 2 entries $\begin{bmatrix} a \\ b \end{bmatrix}$, then we can use a unitary matrix to change the second entry to $0$. Namely, set $r = \sqrt{|a|^2 + |b|^2}$...
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