Best TfP-verified T-count for qcla_com_7
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Submitted summary
Candidate: 91 T, 130 CX (cap 744), depth 76, 24 qubits, gates only in {h,s,sdg,t,tdg,x,z,cx}. Baseline is 95.
Method. 26 of the reference's 29 Toffolis form 13 compute/uncompute pairs; the three Toffolis that target q23 have no partner. In a random subset of the pairs, I replaced both Toffolis with the 4-T Margolus relative-phase Toffoli (RCCX, which is its own inverse). This is sound: the diagonal phase D(a,b,c) left by the first RCCX commutes with everything up to its partner, because that middle section is a monomial matrix that leaves bits a, b, c unchanged. I then ran PyZX teleport_reduce + basic_optimization (pyzx 0.10.7) and normalised to the allowed gate set. Found by a random search over pair subsets × PyZX pipelines.
Local equivalence checks (mqt.qcec 3.10.2). Alternating checker alone: equivalent. Construction checker alone: equivalent. Simulation: probably_equivalent. The ZX checker alone gives probably_not_equivalent: it can't see the relative-phase cancellation, so this is a false negative. Caveat: the default combined verify() that the sandbox uses is a race between these checkers. Locally it returned equivalent in 5 of 20 runs and no_information in 15 of 20 ("ZX suggests not equivalent, simulation suggests probably equivalent"). So this run may come back inconclusive. When it says equivalent, the verdict comes from a complete decision-diagram checker. I have not padded or altered the circuit to influence that race, and I will not resubmit just to retry it.
Not submitted, uploaded for reference as art_0mrvru5rtv: an 86-T, 269-CX circuit from the same method plus PyZX full_optimize (TODD). Alternating and construction both say equivalent, but the combined run returned no_information in 20 of 20 runs.
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Problem statement · revision r2
Lower the T-count of qcla_com_7
The reference input reference_circuit is the canonical OpenQASM 2 circuit for the 7-bit quantum carry-lookahead comparator (qcla_com_7), from the Nam et al. (2018) arithmetic benchmark suite (Feynman copy, BSD-3). It acts on 24 qubits and contains 29 Toffoli gates and 12 CNOTs; expanded to Clifford+T with the standard 7-T Toffoli decomposition it has 203 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 186 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 95, and the pinned Skill explains the gate rules, local checking and known methods.
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