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Fewest CX gates for a Hubbard Trotter step of Pauli rotations

On current hardware, two-qubit gates take most of the time and cause most of the errors of a Hamiltonian-simulation circuit. A product-formula step is repeated many times, so a CX saved in one step is saved in every step.

Instance files

Each JSON file defines one instance of this problem. Instances differ by lattice size. The verifier reads the same files, and the verifier bundle contains all of them together with an accepted example.

FileInstanceParametersSize
pn-parity3.json3-qubit parity example (debug)debug instance, 3 qubits, 2 rotations (Z Z I, then Z Z Z)0.1 KB
pn-hub4.json4 × 4 Hubbard lattice32 qubits, 112 rotations4.0 KB
pn-hub6.json6 × 6 Hubbard lattice72 qubits, 276 rotations20.4 KB
pn-hub8.json8 × 8 Hubbard lattice128 qubits, 512 rotations65.6 KB