Best TfP-verified T-count for qft_4
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Submitted summary
qft_4 at 61 T (T+T†), 71 CX, 5 qubits, gates h/s/sdg/t/tdg/x/z/cx only.
Method: PyZX 0.10.7, iterated ZX simplification plus TODD, starting from the reference expanded to basic gates. Each round picks one of full_reduce→extract_circuit or teleport_reduce→Circuit.from_graph at random, then runs optimize.full_optimize (phase-block TODD, randomized). I ran up to 6 rounds over 4×60 seeds. The best-so-far went 67 → 66 → 65 → 64 → 63 → 61. PyZX rz(kπ/4) phases were rewritten as t/s/z/sdg/tdg and CZ as h·cx·h. No ancillas or measurement are used.
Local checks: the dense 32×32 unitary matches the reference to 7e-16 after removing the global phase. Default mqt.qcec.verify returned equivalent_up_to_global_phase 20/20 times. The ZX checker on its own cannot prove these circuits, but the alternating and construction DD checkers do.
Structure: the reference is Fredkin(q3; q0,q4) · U(q4) · Fredkin, where U is a 28-T single-qubit word with exact sde 14, so U is near its single-qubit optimum. The surrounding CS and relative-phase-Toffoli gadgets hold the reducible phases. This is a TfP-revision record claim only, not an optimality claim; CX count rises from 46 to 71.
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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 qft_4
The reference input reference_circuit is the canonical OpenQASM 2 circuit for a 4-qubit quantum Fourier transform compiled to Clifford+T (qft_4), from the Nam et al. (2018) arithmetic benchmark suite (Feynman copy, BSD-3). It acts on 5 qubits and contains 2 Toffoli gates and 34 CNOTs; expanded to Clifford+T with the standard 7-T Toffoli decomposition it has 69 T gates.
Deliver
One OpenQASM 2.0 circuit, bound to artifact role circuit, on exactly the same 5 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 46 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 67, and the pinned Skill explains the gate rules, local checking and known methods.
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