Co-Designing Quantum Codes with Transversal Diagonal Gates via Multi-Agent Systems
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Abstract
Exact scientific discovery requires more than heuristic search: candidate constructions must be turned into exact objects and checked independently. We address this gap by extending TeXRA with an independent Lean 4 verification layer, turning it into a human-guided multi-agent platform for exact scientific discovery. The platform couples symbolic synthesis, combinatorial and linear-programming search, exact reconstruction of numerical candidates, and formal verification in Lean. We apply this platform to nonadditive quantum error-correcting codes with prescribed transversal diagonal gates within the subset-sum linear-programming (SSLP) framework. In the distance-2 regime where logical states occupy distinct residue classes, the platform yields a Lean-certified catalogue of 14,116 codes for $K\in\{2,3,4\}$ and up to six physical qubits, realizing cyclic logical orders 2 through 18, from which we extract closed-form infinite families. We also construct a residue-degenerate $((6,4,2))$ code implementing the logical controlled-phase gate $\mathrm{diag}(1,1,1,i)$. At distance 3, we resolve the transversal-$T$ problem for $((7,2,3))$ codes within the complementary binary-dihedral $\mathrm{BD}_{16}$ setting: among the 12 candidates surviving the SSLP filters, 10 admit exact realizations and 2 are excluded by no-go proofs. All accepted constructions, families, and no-go results are formalized and checked in Lean, illustrating how AI-assisted workflows can bridge search, exact reconstruction, and formal proof in the physical sciences.