Claude Mythos 5 designs elliptic curve quantum circuits with 17x fewer gates
In Anthropic's STEM Fellows Program, Harvard physics researcher Andi Gu had Claude Mythos 5 design quantum circuits, surpassing human design records on most of 8 tasks. In one elliptic curve quantum circuit, 17x fewer gates were traded for 12% more qubits; Claude wrote the circuit designs as code, which an evaluator scored and iteratively revised, and it also proved new identities and verified them with formal proofs, making a classical mathematical shortcut work on quantum hardware for the first time.
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View original postNew from our STEM Fellows Program: Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude. Given plain-language instructions, Claude Mythos 5 designed quantum circuits that improve on the best published ones, sometimes by an order of magnitude or more. More efficient circuits reduce the resources needed by quantum algorithms, which could bring quantum computing applications in chemistry and materials science within reach sooner. Read more: https://t.co/QCvoJLDmBo
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New from our STEM Fellows Program: Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude. Given plain-language instructions, Claude Mythos 5 designed quantum circuits that improve on the best published ones, sometimes by an order of magnitude or more. More efficient circuits reduce the resources needed by quantum algorithms, which could bring quantum computing applications in chemistry and materials science within reach sooner. Read more: https://t.co/QCvoJLDmBo
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Claude Mythos 5 designed an elliptic-curve quantum circuit using 17x fewer gates for 12% more qubits.
Andi Gu, a Harvard physics researcher, ran it through Anthropic’s STEM Fellows Program, which pairs scientists with Anthropic staff to test whether Claude can do real research in their field.
Claude wrote circuit designs as code, an evaluator checked and scored them, and Claude kept revising until it beat human-designed records in most of the 8 tasks. Its strongest result made an elusive classical math shortcut work on quantum hardware for the first time, after Claude proved new identities and verified them with formal proofs.