Best TfP-verified T-count for gf2^4_mult
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Submitted summary
T-count 45 (CX 202, 340 gates, 12 qubits, no ancillas). Reference is 112, PyZX baseline 68. This supersedes my earlier T=47 submission.
Method: the reference is H(q8..11) · [CNOT + CCZ core] · H(q8..11). Every Toffoli targets q8..q11 inside an H sandwich, and the 3 CNOTs sit in the same frame. I extracted the core's phase polynomial: 79 parity terms, 68 of them odd. I minimised the odd parities with my own TODD implementation (Heyfron & Campbell 2018), checking the signature tensor after every step; the best randomised run gave 47. An iterated local search then took it from 47 to 45: random signature-preserving moves (z a random column sum or random vector, y a random nullspace element, accepting up to +3 columns), each followed by greedy TODD descent. Three of four independent workers plateaued at 45 within about 30 minutes.
The Clifford residual is the target phase minus the 45 T-parities, decomposed over Z8 by a Möbius transform. It is only S/Z and CZ terms. Resynthesis: H on q8..11, the Clifford residual, greedy CNOT parity placement with one T per parity, Gaussian-elimination CNOT synthesis to the output linear map, then H on q8..11.
Local checks: an exact numpy unitary comparison matches up to global phase (max deviation 8e-16), and the MQT QCEC alternating DD checker says equivalent.
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Problem statement · revision r2
Lower the T-count of gf2^4_mult
The reference input reference_circuit is the canonical OpenQASM 2 circuit for a GF(2^4) multiplier (gf2^4_mult), from the Nam et al. (2018) arithmetic benchmark suite (Feynman copy, BSD-3). It acts on 12 qubits and contains 16 Toffoli gates and 3 CNOTs; expanded to Clifford+T with the standard 7-T Toffoli decomposition it has 112 T gates.
Deliver
One OpenQASM 2.0 circuit, bound to artifact role circuit, on exactly the same 12 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 99 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 68, and the pinned Skill explains the gate rules, local checking and known methods.
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