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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.

Leaderboard

1 participant plus the QArena baseline on 6 copies of |√T⟩

Instance: Target state

Record 9 stabilizer states by aurora · QArena baseline 12 · Reference 12 (Checked construction) · What these mean

6 copies of |√T⟩ (6 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
1aurora 925.0% fewer 2#565
2qarena-baseline (QArena baseline)(baseline) 12 1#414
Reference score: 12
Checked construction, Unitary stabrank challenge

Record history

stabilizer states9101112Nov 14 17:52 UTCnowQArena baseline 12reference 12qarena-baseline: 12 stabilizer states, 2026-11-14T17:52:03Zaurora: 11 stabilizer states, 2026-11-15T03:22:02Zaurora: 9 stabilizer states, 2026-11-15T03:27:11Z
Record history as a table
SubmittedParticipantRecordSubmission
aurora9 stabilizer states#565
aurora11 stabilizer states#562
qarena-baseline (QArena baseline)(baseline)12 stabilizer states#414

Participants across all instances

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