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In this article we demonstrate how to solve a variety of problems and puzzles using the built-in SAT solver of the computer algebra system Maple. Once the problems have been encoded into Boolean logic, solutions can be found (or shown to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Curtis Bright , Jürgen Gerhard , Ilias Kotsireas , Vijay Ganesh

Shor's algorithm for integer factorization offers an exponential speedup over classical methods but remains impractical on Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware due to the need for many coherent qubits and very deep circuits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Alok Shukla , Prakash Vedula

This paper presents a hybrid quantum-classical approach to prime factorization. The proposed algorithm is based on the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE), which employs a classical optimizer to find the ground state of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Mona Sobhani , Yahui Chai , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen

The recent availability of the first commercial quantum computers has provided a promising tool to tackle NP hard problems which can only be solved heuristically with present techniques. However, it is unclear if the current state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 Hristo N. Djidjev , Guillaume Chapuis , Georg Hahn , Guillaume Rizk

We describe a general method to obtain quantum speedups of classical algorithms which are based on the technique of backtracking, a standard approach for solving constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). Backtracking algorithms explore a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Ashley Montanaro

Satisfiability-based verification techniques, leveraging modern Boolean satisfiability (SAT) and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers, have demonstrated efficacy in addressing practical problem instances within program analysis.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Markus Krahl , Matthias Güdemann , Stefan Wallentowitz

A pivotal task for quantum computing is to speed up solving problems that are both classically intractable and practically valuable. Among these, combinatorial optimization problems have attracted tremendous attention due to their broad…

The advantage that many quantum algorithms have over their classical counterparts may be lost when the results are extracted as classical data (output problem). One example are eigenpair solvers, which encode the eigenpairs in a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Sven Danz

The Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem is a computationally challenging decision problem central to many industrial applications. For SAT problems in cryptanalysis, circuit design, and telecommunication, solutions can often be found more…

With the growing interest in quantum programs, ensuring their correctness is a fundamental challenge. Although constraint-solving techniques can overcome some limitations of traditional testing and verification, they have not yet been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Shangzhou Xia , Haitao Fu , Jianjun Zhao

DNA computation could in principle solve the satisfiability (SAT) problem due to the operations in parallel on extremely large numbers of strands. We demonstrate some quantum gates corresponding to the DNA ones, based on which an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-05 T. T. Ren , M. Feng , W. -L. Chang , J. Luo , M. S. Zhan

Quantum algorithms can deliver asymptotic speedups over their classical counterparts. However, there are few cases where a substantial quantum speedup has been worked out in detail for reasonably-sized problems, when compared with the best…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Earl Campbell , Ankur Khurana , Ashley Montanaro

This paper introduces SATFuL, a SAT solver for fuzzy logics. In contrast to the Boolean case, for which numerous SAT solvers exist, the SAT problem for fuzzy logics has attracted less attention, even though these tools have interesting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Pablo F. Castro

Recent research has demonstrated that quantum computers can solve certain types of problems substantially faster than the known classical algorithms. These problems include factoring integers and certain physics simulations. Practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Emanuel Knill , Raymond Laflamme , Wojciech H. Zurek

In the last decade, public and industrial research funding has moved quantum computing from the early promises of Shor's algorithm through experiments to the era of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices (NISQ) for solving real-world…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Rhonda Au-Yeung , Nicholas Chancellor , Pascal Halffmann

Considering its relevance in the field of cryptography, integer factorization is a prominent application where Quantum computers are expected to have a substantial impact. Thanks to Shor's algorithm this peculiar problem can be solved in…

Quantum computing is poised to dramatically change the computational landscape, worldwide. Quantum computers can solve complex problems that are, at least in some cases, beyond the ability of even advanced future classical-style computers.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Dominic Rosch-Grace , Jeremy Straub

With quantum computers of significant size now on the horizon, we should understand how to best exploit their initially limited abilities. To this end, we aim to identify a practical problem that is beyond the reach of current classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Andrew M. Childs , Dmitri Maslov , Yunseong Nam , Neil J. Ross , Yuan Su

As Cook-Levin theorem showed, every NP problem can be reduced to SAT in polynomial time. In this paper I show a simpler and more efficent method to reduce some factorization problems to the satisfability of a boolean formula.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Davide Maran

Cardinality constraints are important in many Sat problems; previous studies provide contradictory conclusions about the best encoding to use. Here, three encodings are compared: Sinz's sequential-counter, Bailleux and Boufkhad's…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Ed Wynn