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Source code for a quantum compiler which enumerates over the Clifford group and T (pi/8) gate with skip-ahead
optimizations to produce approximate gate sequences of optimal length.

(c) Austin Fowler 2004-2012.

This work is described in more detail in the following paper:
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0411206

Please cite this paper and Austin Fowler for the original code (in the master branch).
You can email Austin for support at austingfowler at gmail.

The branch 'jeff" was added by Jeffrey Booth to add meet-in-the-middle optimizations.

(c) Jeffrey Booth 2012

This work is described in more detail in the following paper:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3348

Please cite this paper and Jeffrey Booth for the meet-in-the-middle optimizations.