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Description

Preserve every target when importing Qiskit MCMT gates and compile supported controlled composite bodies without frontend preprocessing, as needed by Bench #1027.

• Unwrap a controlled gate only when its base spans the complete target register and all controls are closed. Otherwise import its public circuit definition, including Qiskit's X conjugation for open controls.
• Distribute composite controls in the existing multi-control decomposition pass, reusing modifier unrolling and control canonicalizations. Preserve the width threshold and native-target support.
• Let QC/QCO verifiers own modifier-body validation. Remove duplicate hoisting checks.

No new dependencies, shared IR types, pipeline passes, or early single-qubit merging are introduced. Qiskit-specific handling stays in the adapter; decomposition works on generic QCO input.

Usage and limits

The existing QCProgram.from_qiskit(circuit), QCOProgram.compile_for_target(...), and QCOProgram.synthesize_for_target(...) APIs handle these cases directly. Open-controlled gates use their definitions; open-control modifiers on AnnotatedOperation remain unsupported.

At the default decomposition threshold, composite controlled operations with fewer than three total qubits remain intact. Composite bodies inside inverse or power modifiers can still prevent target compilation or synthesis in this PR; stacked #2594 handles supported nested forms and addresses #2588. This does not add arbitrary large-unitary synthesis or broaden support for symbolic powers or opaque instructions.

Validation

• Rebased onto upstream main c92ffa7a6 and reviewed together with the stacked PR.
• Combined-stack validation passes: 1,524 native tests (compiler 233, decomposition 315, MQT transforms 31, QC IR 368, QCO IR 575, and two native-synthesis checks) and all 428 Qiskit translation tests.
• Consolidated pipeline tests compare full unitaries for plain, inverse, and positive/negative integer-power bodies through both target APIs. Retained boundary cases cover width, native support, control scope, unsupported powers, and failed unrolling.
• Removed 203 net lines of test code across the stack: MCMT cases reduced from 36 to 6 and unsupported-power combinations from 7 to 3. No production code changed in this test/documentation cleanup.
• Before consolidation, twelve additional Qiskit-to-target exact-unitary checks passed for nested modifiers and open MCMT inverses.
• Clang 23/ThinLTO native build, repository lint, and full changed-file C++ lint pass. Python validation uses Qiskit 2.5.2.

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• New Features

  • Composite controlled gates, including multi-target gates, are now preserved correctly during Qiskit translation and compilation.
  • Synthesis can distribute controls across composite gate bodies and decompose large controls when the configured width allows it.
  • Native symbolic rotations remain unchanged when supported by the target.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of controlled gates with mismatched control and target widths.
  • Preserved operand ordering, nested controls, controlled phases, and two-qubit behavior.

• Documentation

  • Clarified controlled-gate preservation and synthesis behavior, including minimum-width decomposition settings.

Walkthrough

The change preserves multi-target controlled-gate definitions during Qiskit translation and adds controlled-composite unrolling to multi-controlled decomposition. Compiler, decomposition, translation, documentation, and plan coverage validate width thresholds, operand handling, native rotations, and unitary preservation.

Changes

Controlled composite-gate handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Qiskit controlled-gate validation bindings/mlir/qiskit/Qiskit2_5.cpp, test/python/test_mlir_qiskit_translation.py, docs/mlir/qiskit.md	Controlled gates are recognized only when their control metadata and widths match. Multi-target controlled gates retain their complete definitions through round trips.
Composite-control unrolling and decomposition mlir/include/mqt/Dialect/MQT/Transforms/UnrollModifiers.h, mlir/lib/Dialect/MQT/Transforms/UnrollModifiers.cpp, mlir/lib/Dialect/QCO/Transforms/Decomposition/DecomposeMultiControlled.cpp, mlir/include/mqt/Dialect/QCO/Transforms/Passes.td, docs/mlir/target_compilation.md	unrollControl exposes composite-control unrolling. Multi-controlled decomposition invokes it and applies CtrlOp canonicalization patterns.
Compiler behavior validation mlir/unittests/Compiler/test_compiler_pipeline.cpp, mlir/unittests/Dialect/QCO/Transforms/Decomposition/test_multi_controlled_decomposition.cpp, .agent/plans/bench-controlled-gates.md	Tests cover target compilation, minimum-qubit thresholds, native symbolic rotations, and preserved functionality. The plan records validation and benchmark results.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Qiskit
  participant Qiskit2_5
  participant QCO
  participant DecomposeMultiControlled
  participant TargetCompiler
  Qiskit->>Qiskit2_5: provide controlled multi-target gate
  Qiskit2_5->>QCO: validate widths and preserve complete definition
  TargetCompiler->>DecomposeMultiControlled: process controlled composite operation
  DecomposeMultiControlled->>QCO: unroll and canonicalize composite control
  DecomposeMultiControlled-->>TargetCompiler: return decomposed operations

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The change has targeted coverage for controlled-gate translation and decomposition behavior, with no identified merge-blocking issue.

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In `@mlir/include/mqt/Dialect/QCO/Transforms/Passes.td`:
- Around line 506-508: Update the DecomposeControlledGatePattern
default-threshold documentation to state that composite controlled operations
are preserved only when their total getNumQubits() width is below the default
min-qubits value of 3; do not describe all two-target composite bodies as
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[burgholzer]

Sorry that it took so long to get back to you on this. This LGTM
I mainly trimmed down tests and updated docs(trings) to be less iterative our history-describing.
I'll go through the other PR as well, then merge as a stack 🚀