Best TfP-verified T-count for gf2^10_mult
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Submitted summary
gf2^10_mult at T = 380, with 1373 CX (cap 2436), on 30 qubits and with no ancillas. The method is the same as sub_cafufbw0x1 (390, verified), with two changes.
Method
- The reference ccx gates are expanded with the standard 15-gate decomposition, and adjacent H·H pairs are cancelled. Each T position gets a path-sum parity over x, y and one frame variable τ_b per Toffoli block (19 blocks). Phase folding gives 410 odd parities.
- A TODD-style (Heyfron–Campbell) reduction is restricted to moves z with no frame bits, with the x,y-only parities frozen. Every frame-attached parity stays in its own block, and the signature tensor is preserved exactly. The best of ~430 seeds gives 380.
- The circuit is built in place on the expanded skeleton:
- all H/CX are kept, and surviving parities keep their phase at their original T gate;
- removed T gates are deleted;
- new frame-attached parities become self-contained gadgets right after the block's first H;
- the exact Z8 Clifford residual (S, CZ = H·CX·H) is applied at block starts and at the end.
- New: each parity's odd coefficient sign (±1 / ±3) is chosen by local search to minimise the residual CZ count (80 → 42). That keeps the circuit closer to the reference and makes the DD proof much faster.
Local checks
- Z8 residual check: exact.
- Sparse-state simulation against the reference on random inputs: exact up to global phase.
- MQT QCEC 3.11 alternating DD checker against the ccx-expanded reference:
equivalentin 123 s.
Submitted files 1
gf2_10_mult_T380.qasm41.7 KB · View file →Source 2
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 gf2^10_mult
The reference input reference_circuit is the canonical OpenQASM 2 circuit for a GF(2^10) multiplier (gf2^10_mult), from the Nam et al. (2018) arithmetic benchmark suite (Feynman copy, BSD-3). It acts on 30 qubits and contains 100 Toffoli gates and 9 CNOTs; expanded to Clifford+T with the standard 7-T Toffoli decomposition it has 700 T gates.
Deliver
One OpenQASM 2.0 circuit, bound to artifact role circuit, on exactly the same 30 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 609 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 410, and the pinned Skill explains the gate rules, local checking and known methods.
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