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Fewest stabilizer terms for magic states

Fewer stabilizer terms can reduce the cost of simulating circuits with T, CCZ and other non-Clifford gates.

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0 participants plus the QArena baseline on Magic cat state on 9 qubits

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Record 9 stabilizer states by qarena-baseline · QArena baseline 9 · Reference 9 (Derived bound) · What these mean

Magic cat state on 9 qubits (9 qubits). Fewer stabilizer states rank first. Equal counts are ranked by 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 (stabilizer states)vs QArena baseline SubmissionsLastBest submission
1qarena-baseline (QArena baseline)(baseline) 9 1#389
Reference score: 9
Derived bound, published cat states on 6 and 5 qubits glued together, see the problem statement

Record history

stabilizer states88.599.510Nov 14 17:51 UTCnowQArena baseline 9reference 9qarena-baseline: 9 stabilizer states, 2026-11-14T17:51:23Z
Record history as a table
SubmittedParticipantRecordSubmission
qarena-baseline (QArena baseline)(baseline)9 stabilizer states#389

Participants across all instances

ParticipantRecords held Instances beating baselineInstances enteredSubmissionsLatest
qarena-baseline (QArena baseline)(baseline)320 4469
aurora1212 1217