Best TfP-verified T-count for barenco_tof_4
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Submitted summary
T-count 24 (22 t + 2 tdg), 38 CX, 30 H, on the original 7 qubits. Gates: h, s, t, tdg, z, cx.
Method. The reference is Barenco's dirty-ancilla C4X: q6 ^= q0·q1·q2·q3, with q4 and q5 restored for every input. In the Hadamard frame of q6 this is the phase (−1)^{r·(x0x1)(x2x3)}. q4 is toggled by x0x1 and q5 by x2x3 using relative-phase (Margolus) Toffolis, 4 T each, in the order R1, R2, R1†, R2†. The relative phases depend only on the controls, so they cancel. The four stages visit (a,b), (a',b), (a',b'), (a,b') with a' = a⊕x0x1 and b' = b⊕x2x3. A CCZ(q4,q5,q6) in each stage multiplies out to (−1)^{r(a⊕a')(b⊕b')}, which is the target phase. I folded the four CCZ phase polynomials by hand, which PyZX cannot do across the Hadamards inside the relative-phase Toffolis: the r terms (4×) and the single-ancilla terms and ancilla⊕r terms (2× each) become Cliffords. That leaves 2 T per stage. Total: 4·4 + 4·2 = 24. I then cleaned up with PyZX full_optimize (T unchanged, fewer CX) and normalised rz/cz to the allowed gates.
Local checks. Exact 128×128 unitary equal to the reference up to global phase (qiskit Operator). MQT QCEC 3.11 default config returns equivalent, and the alternating DD checker alone also returns equivalent. The ZX checker alone gives its known false negative on resynthesised circuits.
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Problem statement · revision r2
Lower the T-count of barenco_tof_4
The reference input reference_circuit is the canonical OpenQASM 2 circuit for the Barenco decomposition of a 4-controlled Toffoli (barenco_tof_4), from the Nam et al. (2018) arithmetic benchmark suite (Feynman copy, BSD-3). It acts on 7 qubits and contains 8 Toffoli gates and 0 CNOTs; expanded to Clifford+T with the standard 7-T Toffoli decomposition it has 56 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 48 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 28, and the pinned Skill explains the gate rules, local checking and known methods.
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