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Quantum Circuit Synthesis Using an Exact T Library

Quantum Physics 2026-05-18 v1

Abstract

In fault-tolerant quantum circuit synthesis, T gates supplied via magic states dominate space-time cost, while Clifford gates incur negligible overhead. Conventional flows minimize AND count in an {XOR, AND, NOT} basis as a proxy for T, which neglects phase cancellation and can be far from T-optimal. We instead formulate an exact T synthesis problem and canonicalize Boolean functions under Clifford equivalence. By precomputing T-optimal implementations up to seven variables and developing a customized mapper, we reduce the T count by up to 14.3% on EPFL benchmarks and improve the T counts of several cryptographic modules by up to 40%.

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@article{arxiv.2605.15476,
  title  = {Quantum Circuit Synthesis Using an Exact T Library},
  author = {Hanyu Wang and Mingfei Yu and Xinrui Wu and Jason Cong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.15476},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

8 pages, 12 figures, accepted by DAC 2026