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Catalytic $z$-rotations in constant $T$-depth

Quantum Physics 2026-02-13 v2

Abstract

We show that the TT-depth of any single-qubit zz-rotation can be reduced to 33 if a certain catalyst state is available. To achieve an ϵ\epsilon-approximation, it suffices to have a catalyst state of size polynomial in log(1/ϵ)\log(1/\epsilon). This implies that QNCf0/qpoly\mathsf{QNC}^0_f/\mathsf{qpoly} admits a finite universal gate set consisting of Clifford+TT. In particular, there are catalytic constant TT-depth circuits that approximate multi-qubit Toffoli, adder, and quantum Fourier transform arbitrarily well. We also show that the catalyst state can be prepared in time polynomial in log(1/ϵ)\log (1/\epsilon).

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@article{arxiv.2506.15147,
  title  = {Catalytic $z$-rotations in constant $T$-depth},
  author = {Isaac H. Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.15147},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures, updated references and comparison with recent results

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