ABSTRACTS: Amsterdam Benchmark Suite for the Time and Resource Analysis of Clifford+T Simulators

Abstract:Recent years have seen a rapid growth in literature presenting new methods for simulating non-Clifford quantum circuits with classical hardware. These methods span a range of approaches, including stabiliser decomposition and tensor contraction techniques, varying in efficiency depending on circuit class, depth, non-Clifford gate count, and other metrics. A notable limitation of this literature is the lack of a standardised approach to benchmarking, with each new paper outlining its own specification, simulating its own set of circuits on the authors' own hardware. This paper seeks to address this issue by presenting a standardised and canonical benchmark suite and infrastructure for quantifying the efficiency of non-Clifford classical simulators, with a consistent dataset of circuits and providing consistent (virtual) hardware, thereby enabling a fair comparison of results.

This manuscript corresponds to version 0.1 of the ABSTRACTS repository: this https URL

Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Performance (cs.PF)

arXiv:2608.24370 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2608.24370v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.24370 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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