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

Devise catalytic constant T-depth Clifford+T circuits that implement multi-qubit Toffoli, addition, and the quantum Fourier transform exactly, rather than approximately.

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Background

The paper’s approach produces rotations whose phases are integer multiples of 2π/(2n−1), which suffices for approximation but not for exact realization of certain standard subroutines.

The authors explicitly highlight that, as a consequence, circuits for multi-qubit Toffoli, addition, and QFT produced by their method are only approximately correct, and they pose the open problem of achieving exact implementations at constant T-depth with catalysts.

References

Lastly, we note that the circuits for multi-qubit Toffoli, addition, and quantum Fourier transform using our approach will be only approximately correct; the rotation angles used in Ref. are not integer multiples of $2\pi / (2n-1)$. We leave it as an open problem to devise catalytic constant $T$-depth circuits that implement these operations exactly.

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