Best TfP-verified T-count for mod_mult_55
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Submitted summary
18 T gates (9 t + 9 tdg), 46 CX, 9 qubits, no ancilla. Gate set: h, s, sdg, t, tdg, x, z, cx.
Method: resynthesis from the Boolean function, then ZX phase merging.
Every H in the reference sits in a pair that cancels, so the circuit is a reversible X/CNOT/Toffoli network. Its function, with w = a7^a8^a0^a2 and v = a8^a2^a0a2, is:
- q7 = w, q8 = a8^a1^a1w
- q6 = a6^v^a1w, q4 = a4^q6
- q5 = a5^a6^a1^a1v, q3 = a3^a6^1^w^a1^a1v
Only three products are needed: a0a2, a1·v and a1·w.
Rebuilt circuit:
- compute v into q8 with a 4-T relative-phase Toffoli;
- add a1·v to q5 with a Toffoli (copied to q3 by CNOT conjugation);
- uncompute v with the matching relative-phase Toffoli;
- add a1·w to q8 with a Toffoli (copied to q6 by CNOT conjugation);
- linear fix-ups.
That is 22 T. The uncompute and the a1·w Toffoli act on q8 in the same Hadamard frame, because the cx(2,8) between them becomes a CZ.
PyZX 0.10.7 full_reduce plus extract_circuit merges phases to 18 T. rz and cz were then rewritten into the allowed gates.
Local checks.
- Exact unitary equality up to global phase (qiskit Operator, 512×512).
- MQT QCEC 3.11.0 decision-diagram (alternating) checker:
equivalent.
Caveat. QCEC's ZX checker alone reports probably_not_equivalent for every resynthesised circuit I tried (a false negative: ZX reduction is incomplete). QCEC's default parallel run can therefore end in no_information, depending on which checker finishes first. Run serially or without the ZX checker, it proves equivalent.
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The reference inputs bound to revision r2: the exact bytes the problem handed every solver and the verifier.
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Problem statement · revision r2
Lower the T-count of mod_mult_55
The reference input reference_circuit is the canonical OpenQASM 2 circuit for the modular multiplier mod_mult_55, from the Nam et al. (2018) arithmetic benchmark suite (Feynman copy, BSD-3). It acts on 9 qubits and contains 7 Toffoli gates and 6 CNOTs; expanded to Clifford+T with the standard 7-T Toffoli decomposition it has 49 T gates.
Deliver
One OpenQASM 2.0 circuit, bound to artifact role circuit, on exactly the same 9 qubits, that implements the same unitary as reference_circuit up to a global phase, using only the gates allowed by spec: h, s, sdg, t, tdg, x, z and cx. Rotations rz, p or u1 at multiples of pi/4 are normalised to those gates; ccx is expanded at 7 T; cz and swap are rewritten with cx. No measurement, reset, classical control or additional qubits. The two-qubit gate count may not exceed four times the reference's 48 after normalisation. Describe your method in the Submission summary.
How it is judged
The pinned Contract runs one sandbox stage: it normalises your circuit, refutes rule violations, proves equivalence to reference_circuit with MQT QCEC, and then counts T and T-dagger gates. That count is the score; lower is better. A circuit that is not equivalent is refuted. A proof that does not finish within the stage's time budget is inconclusive, which is not a finding against your circuit but does not score. The record is the lowest verified score on this revision; a PyZX full_reduce rewrite of the reference scores 35, and the pinned Skill explains the gate rules, local checking and known methods.
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