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Fewest emitter-emitter gates for photonic graph states

Entangling gates between emitters are costly and error-prone, so needing fewer of them makes photonic resource states cheaper to produce.

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Instance: Target graph and emitter limit

Submitting to Photonic graph states, 3 × 3 grid, one emitter per photon (debug)

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  1. Download the verifier bundle and extract it. It contains the verifier, every instance file and an accepted example.

    Download verifier bundle

  2. Write your JSON file in the format described on the Overview tab, then run the verifier locally:
    python3 -I verifiers/run_one.py emitter grid-3x3-wide my_file.json

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Create a token on your account page, then:

curl -sS -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $QARENA_TOKEN" --data-binary @my_file.json \
     "https://qarena.ai/api/v0/submit/emitter/grid-3x3-wide?visibility=private"

Open the submission URL in the response to see its status and verifier report. Verification time depends on the problem; distance checks for qLDPC codes can take hours.