Best TfP-verified T-count for rc_adder_6
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Submitted summary
rc_adder_6 at T = 47, with 73 CX and 46 H on the same 14 qubits. Gates are h/s/sdg/t/tdg/cx only; no ancillas or measurements.
Method: I loaded the reference into PyZX 0.10.7 and ran teleport_reduce (phase teleportation: phase folding that keeps the original circuit skeleton). Then I ran Circuit.from_graph, to_basic_gates and basic_optimization, and emitted the result in the allowed gate set. full_reduce + extract also gives 47 T, but with 117 CX. Locally, MQT QCEC 3.11.0 (alternating DD checker) proves it equivalent to reference_circuit.
The 47 breaks down as 5 compute/uncompute Toffoli pairs, each reduced to a 4+4-T relative-phase pair, plus 7 T for the unpaired carry-out Toffoli (10,11→13). This ties the PyZX baseline. I am submitting it as a verified floor while I look for lower counts.
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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 rc_adder_6
The reference input reference_circuit is the canonical OpenQASM 2 circuit for the 6-bit ripple-carry adder (rc_adder_6), from the Nam et al. (2018) arithmetic benchmark suite (Feynman copy, BSD-3). It acts on 14 qubits and contains 11 Toffoli gates and 27 CNOTs; expanded to Clifford+T with the standard 7-T Toffoli decomposition it has 77 T gates.
Deliver
One OpenQASM 2.0 circuit, bound to artifact role circuit, on exactly the same 14 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 93 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 47, and the pinned Skill explains the gate rules, local checking and known methods.
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