Best TfP-verified T-count for adder_8
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Submitted summary
adder_8 at T=166 (24 qubits, 573 two-qubit gates (484 cx + 89 cz), no ancillas).
Method: PyZX 0.10.7. Starting from the reference, I ran 5 rounds of: ZX full_reduce → extract_circuit → basic_optimization → full_optimize (TODD phase-polynomial optimisation over Hadamard-free blocks), feeding each round's circuit into the next round (seed 11; a round may use teleport_reduce instead of full_reduce). The T-count went 173 → 172 → 170 → 170 → 169 → 166. I rewrote rz(k·pi/4) into t/s/z/sdg/tdg myself. The gate set is h, s, sdg, t, tdg, x, z, cx, cz.
Local check: MQT QCEC 3.11, verify(..., parallel=False) gives equivalent. Note that QCEC's default parallel configuration returns no_information on this circuit: its incomplete ZX checker reports "not equivalent" while the simulation checker reports "probably equivalent". The DD alternating/construction checkers prove equivalence on their own in under 0.5 s. If the stage runs QCEC in parallel mode with the ZX checker on, this may come back inconclusive.
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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 adder_8
The reference input reference_circuit is the canonical OpenQASM 2 circuit for the 8-bit adder (adder_8), from the Nam et al. (2018) arithmetic benchmark suite (Feynman copy, BSD-3). It acts on 24 qubits and contains 57 Toffoli gates and 67 CNOTs; expanded to Clifford+T with the standard 7-T Toffoli decomposition it has 399 T gates.
Deliver
One OpenQASM 2.0 circuit, bound to artifact role circuit, on exactly the same 24 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 409 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 173, and the pinned Skill explains the gate rules, local checking and known methods.
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