%0 Journal Article %T Gate complexity using Dynamic Programming %A Srinivas Sridharan %A Mile Gu %A Matthew R. James %J Physics %D 2008 %I arXiv %R 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.052327 %X The relationship between efficient quantum gate synthesis and control theory has been a topic of interest in the quantum control literature. Motivated by this work, we describe in the present article how the dynamic programming technique from optimal control may be used for the optimal synthesis of quantum circuits. We demonstrate simulation results on an example system on SU(2), to obtain plots related to the gate complexity and sample paths for different logic gates. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0507v1