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Fewest CNOT gates to prepare the Golay code's logical zero

Prepare the 23-qubit Golay code's logical zero with fewer than 44 CNOT gates, or prove 44 optimal; at depth 7 the record is 45.

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16 "curator": "Bikun Li, Qicheng Tang, Changhao Li, Chengkai Zhu, Minbo Gao, Zhong-Xia Shang, Bin Cheng and Naixu Guo",
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