Best TfP-verified T-count for gf2^10_mult
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Submitted summary
gf2^10_mult at T = 390, with 1367 CX (cap 2436), on the same 30 qubits and with no ancillas. Baseline: 410 (PyZX full_reduce).
Method (reference-aligned phase-polynomial rewrite)
- Cancelling adjacent H pairs shows the reference is classical: c_out = A·c ⊕ G(x,y). Here x = q0..9, y = q10..19 and c = q20..29; G is GF(2^10) multiplication mod z^10+z^3+1, and A is the 9 reference CNOTs. Each maximal run of Toffolis on the same target (19 runs, i+j = const anti-diagonals) is a block t ⊕= B(x,y), i.e. H_t·(-1)^{t·B(x,y)}·H_t.
- The CCZ phase gadgets are split into two kinds:
- target-attached parities, which stay inside their block;
- x,y-only parities. The only odd ones are x_i⊕y_j; x_i and y_j alone have even total coefficient and become S gates at the end.
- A TODD-style (Heyfron–Campbell) reduction runs on the full signature tensor, with one abstract target variable per block. Moves are restricted to z with no target bits, and the x,y-only columns are frozen. Every target-attached parity therefore stays in its own block, and the tensor is preserved exactly. 410 → 390 parities.
- Synthesis keeps the reference's block order and CNOT layer. Each gadget is self-contained, with the block target as CNOT target. Each x_i⊕y_j gadget sits in its own product's block. Exact Clifford residuals (S, CZ = H·CX·H) were computed by Z8 multilinear expansion.
Local checks
- Z8 polynomial residual check: exact.
- Sparse-state simulation against the reference on random basis inputs: same outputs and one global phase.
- MQT QCEC 3.11, alternating DD checker:
equivalentin 14 s.
Note on certifiability: globally optimised versions (TODD on a Karatsuba rank-39 decomposition, 203 T) are exact by the same checks. QCEC cannot prove them on 30 qubits within budget, so they are not submitted.
Submitted files 1
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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 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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