How many T gates are needed to approximate an arbitrary n-qubit quantum state to within error ε? Improving prior work of Low, Kliuchnikov, and Schaeffer, we show that the optimal asymptotic scaling is Θ(2nlog(1/ε)+log(1/ε)) if we allow ancilla qubits. We also show that this is the optimal T-count for implementing an arbitrary diagonal n-qubit unitary to within error ε. We describe applications in which a tensor product of many single-qubit unitaries can be synthesized in parallel for the price of one.
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