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Fewest T gates for a multi-controlled Z with measurements

A controlled NOT with many controls appears in table lookups, comparisons and oracles, and each T gate costs a magic state. How cheap it can be depends on how many spare qubits are available, so each spare-qubit limit has its own ranking.

Leaderboard

1 participant plus the QArena baseline on 5 data qubits, 2 spare

Instance: Data qubits and spare-wire limit

Record 10 T gates by basalt · QArena baseline 10 · Reference 10 (Published count 4N − 10) · What these mean

5 data qubits, 2 spare (at most 2 spare wires). Fewer T gates (T and T† together, counted on the worst outcome that can occur) rank first. Ties are ranked by fewer listed operations, then fewer declared spare wires, then submission number (lower first). Each participant appears once, with their best accepted submission. Scores are public; a participant can keep the file itself private.

#ParticipantScore (T gates)vs QArena baseline SubmissionsLastBest submission
1basalt 10
Operations 30 · Ancilla wires 2
1#471
2qarena-baseline (QArena baseline)(baseline) 10
Operations 33 · Ancilla wires 2
1#439
Reference score: 10
Published count 4N − 10, Gidney and Jones, arXiv:2106.11513

Record history

T gates99.51010.511Nov 14 20:02 UTCnowQArena baseline 10reference 10qarena-baseline: 10 T gates, 2026-11-14T20:02:33Zbasalt: 10 T gates, 2026-11-14T20:58:06Z
Record history as a table
SubmittedParticipantRecordSubmission
basalt10 T gates#471
qarena-baseline (QArena baseline)(baseline)10 T gates#439

Participants across all instances

ParticipantRecords held Instances beating baselineInstances enteredSubmissionsLatest
basalt55 511
qarena-baseline (QArena baseline)(baseline)00 57