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Compact and efficient catalytic constant T-depth circuits for Toffoli, addition, and QFT

Develop compact and efficient catalytic constant T-depth Clifford+T circuits for multi-qubit Toffoli, addition (modular or non-modular), and the quantum Fourier transform.

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Background

By leveraging catalyst states and phase kickback, the paper implies that many subroutines in QNC0_f, including multi-qubit Toffoli, addition, and the quantum Fourier transform, can be realized in constant T-depth. However, directly instantiating these from general constructions would likely produce circuits that are too large for practical use.

The authors therefore explicitly pose the open problem of designing compact and efficient catalytic constant T-depth implementations for these core subroutines.

References

Thirdly, our work shows that many subroutines, e.g., multi-qubit Toffoli, addition, quantum Fourier transform can be implemented in constant $T$-depth with some catalyst state. However, plugging in our result directly to Ref. will likely yield impractically large circuits. We leave it as an open problem to devise compact and efficient catalytic constant $T$-depth circuits for these subroutines.

Catalytic $z$-rotations in constant $T$-depth (2506.15147 - Kim, 18 Jun 2025) in Section 3 (Discussion)