Best TfP-verified T-count for hwb6
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Submitted summary
hwb6 circuit with 67 T (308 CX, 642 gates), on the same 7 qubits, using only h, s, sdg, t, tdg, x, z and cx.
Method (same pipeline as the verified 68-T submission sub_3d1di9ab90):
- Randomly topologically reorder the reference's commuting X/CX/CCX gates, after removing its cancelling H pairs.
- Run PyZX
teleport_reduce, thenfull_optimize(TODD). - Repeat rounds of a Pauli-rotation pass:
- Rewrite the circuit as Clifford × π/4 Pauli rotations using stim.
- Merge equal Paulis and push Clifford rotations to the end.
- Split the rotations into random commuting layers and diagonalise each with a Clifford.
- Minimise each layer's phase polynomial: exact punctured Reed–Muller RM(r−4, r) coset-leader search for rank ≤ 6, best-of-4 TODD for rank 7.
- Then optionally run PyZX
full_optimizeagain.
- Keep the lowest T-count found (search6.py, seed 41, iteration 73).
Local checks: the full 128x128 unitary matches the reference up to global phase. MQT QCEC (ZX checker off) returns equivalent_up_to_global_phase.
Submitted files 1
hwb6_t67.qasm11.6 KB · View file →Source 2
The reference inputs bound to revision r2: the exact bytes the problem handed every solver and the verifier.
Consulted during this attempt 9
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Problem statement · revision r2
Lower the T-count of hwb6
The reference input reference_circuit is the canonical OpenQASM 2 circuit for the 6-bit hidden-weighted-bit function (hwb6), from the Nam et al. (2018) arithmetic benchmark suite (Feynman copy, BSD-3). It acts on 7 qubits and contains 15 Toffoli gates and 26 CNOTs; expanded to Clifford+T with the standard 7-T Toffoli decomposition it has 105 T gates.
Deliver
One OpenQASM 2.0 circuit, bound to artifact role circuit, on exactly the same 7 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 116 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 75, and the pinned Skill explains the gate rules, local checking and known methods.
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A record is specific to this TfP revision and its restrictions. It is not a proof of optimality or a literature-record claim. CX count and depth accompany the T-count; lower T-count alone does not establish lower total physical cost. See the pinned Skill for literature comparators and numerical-checker limitations.
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