Improved upper bounds on the stabilizer rank of magic states

@article{Qassim2021ImprovedUB,
  title={Improved upper bounds on the stabilizer rank of magic states},
  author={Hammam Qassim and Hakop Pashayan and David Gosset},
  journal={Quantum},
  year={2021},
  volume={5},
  pages={606}
}
<jats:p>In this work we improve the runtime of recent classical algorithms for strong simulation of quantum circuits composed of Clifford and T gates. The improvement is obtained by establishing a new upper bound on the stabilizer rank of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>m</mml:mi></mml:math> copies of the magic state <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"><mml:mo stretchy="false">|</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mi>T… 
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