@ -520,9 +520,26 @@ A quantum gate is just a unitary operator on a select set of qubits. Because the
\begin{definition}
A $n$-qubit quantum circuit is formally described by a sequence of gates and input mappings $C =(U_l, I_l)_{l=1}^m$ with $n =\abs{\bigcup_{l=1}^m I_l}$. Using \cref{def:gate_nbit_extension}, the circuit description equals a unitary matrix according to \cref{def:unitary_operator}:
\begin{equation*}
C = G_n(U_m,I_m) \cdots G_n(U_1,I_1)
U_C = G_n(U_m,I_m) \cdots G_n(U_1,I_1)
\end{equation*}
The circuit $C$ is said to be maximally parallelized if all neighboring gate extensions $G_n(U_l,I_l)$ and $G_n(U_{l+1}, I_{l+1})$ with $I_l \cap I_{l+1}=\emptyset$ are reduced to $G_n(U_l \otimes U_{l+1}, I_l I_{l+1})$.
\end{definition}
\contentsketch{Circuit example Deutsch's algorithm}
\begin{definition}
\label{def:circuit_size_depth}
Given a quantum circuit $C=(U_l,I_l)_{l=1}^m$ then
\begin{itemize}
\item the size of $C$ is the total number of gates $m$
\item the depth of $C$ is the number of unitary operator $G_n$ in the maximally parallelized form of $C$
\end{itemize}
\end{definition}
In \cref{sec:deutschs_algorithm} Deutsch's Algorithm already was illustrated using an informal notion of quantum circuits. Let $U_D$ be the unitary operator and $C_D$ the corresponding circuit description of Deutsch's algorithm before measuring the first qubit. The circuit $C_D$ has a size of 4 and a depth of 3.