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OpenAI: Constant-error unitary synthesis from a Boolean oracle

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If verified · reference score350,000Editorial revision range 200,000–600,000. Not a statistical interval. Included in rankings as an unverified reported result; excluded from achieved-science progress totals.

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What is claimed?

The paper claims a polynomial-size quantum oracle circuit generated from n alone that approximates every n-qubit unitary channel to full diamond-norm error at most 1/2 after a suitable target-dependent Boolean oracle is chosen. Reported result; not independently verified by WRS. Ranked using a provisional grade and reference estimate for the exact claimed result.

Scientific scope

The oracle is allowed to depend on the unitary and is not supplied by an efficient classical construction. This is the constant-error formulation, not an arbitrary-precision or practical universal synthesis algorithm. WRS inspected the selected opening statement and available scope note, not the full proof; independent formal replay was not run.

Evidence state

The source reports this result. WRS has not independently reconstructed the complete argument or validated the reported evidence. The grade and score here express conditional significance; they do not certify correctness. The provisional value enters the main reference rankings with an unverified label, but not achieved-science progress totals.

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