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Universal fault-tolerant quantum computers will require the use of efficient protocols to implement encoded operations necessary in the execution of algorithms. In this work, we show how solvers for satisfiability modulo theories (SMT…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Noah Shutty , Christopher Chamberland

This work is a part of an ongoing effort to prove the correctness of invertibility conditions for the theory of fixed-width bit-vectors, which are used to solve quantified bit-vector formulas in the Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Burak Ekici , Arjun Viswanathan , Yoni Zohar , Clark Barrett , Cesare Tinelli

While quantum machine learning (ML) has been proposed to be one of the most promising applications of quantum computing, how to build quantum ML models that outperform classical ML remains a major open question. Here, we demonstrate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Elham Torabian , Roman V. Krems

Quantum computing is seeking to realize hardware-optimized algorithms for application-related computational tasks. NP (nondeterministic-polynomial-time) is a complexity class containing many important but intractable problems like the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Aonan Zhang , Hao Zhan , Junjie Liao , Kaimin Zheng , Tao Jiang , Minghao Mi , Penghui Yao , Lijian Zhang

We prove several decidability and undecidability results for the satisfiability and validity problems for languages that can express solutions to word equations with length constraints. The atomic formulas over this language are equality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Vijay Ganesh , Mia Minnes , Armando Solar-Lezama , Martin Rinard

In order to formulate mathematical conjectures likely to be true, a number of base cases must be determined. However, many combinatorial problems are NP-hard and the computational complexity makes this research approach difficult using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Victoria Horan , Steve Adachi , Stanley Bak

We address the problem of solving a system of linear equations via the Quantum Singular Value Transformation (QSVT). One drawback of the QSVT algorithm is that it requires huge quantum resources if we want to achieve an acceptable accuracy.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Océane Koska , Marc Baboulin , Arnaud Gazda

We propose a method for exact circuit synthesis using a discrete gate set, as required for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Our approach translates the problem of synthesizing a gate specified by its unitary matrix into a boolean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Élie Gouzien , Nicolas Sangouard

In this work we considerably improve the state-of-the-art SMT solving on first-order quantified problems by efficient machine learning guidance of quantifier selection. Quantifiers represent a significant challenge for SMT and are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jan Jakubův , Mikoláš Janota , Jelle Piepenbrock , Josef Urban

We explore ideas for scaling verification methods for quantum circuits using SMT (Satisfiability Modulo Theories) solvers. We propose two primary strategies: (1) decomposing proof obligations via compositional verification and (2)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Benedikt Fauseweh , Ben Hermann , Falk Howar

SMT solvers have been used successfully as reasoning engines for automated verification and other applications based on automated reasoning. Current techniques for dealing with quantified formulas in SMT are generally incomplete, forcing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Andrew Reynolds , Cesare Tinelli , Clark Barrett

In many applications, SMT solvers are utilized to solve similar or identical tasks over time. Significant variations in performance due to small changes in the input are not uncommon and lead to frustration for users. This sort of stability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Daneshvar Amrollahi , Mathias Preiner , Aina Niemetz , Andrew Reynolds , Moses Charikar , Cesare Tinelli , Clark Barrett

Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) and SAT solvers are critical components in many formal software tools, primarily due to the fact that they are able to easily solve logical problem instances with millions of variables and clauses. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Gereon Kremer , Erika Abraham , Vijay Ganesh

Boolean satisfiability ({\SAT}) has played a key role in diverse areas spanning testing, formal verification, planning, optimization, inferencing and the like. Apart from the classical problem of checking boolean satisfiability, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Kuldeep S. Meel

Boolean satisfiability is a propositional logic problem of interest in multiple fields, e.g., physics, mathematics, and computer science. Beyond a field of research, instances of the SAT problem, as it is known, require efficient solution…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-11-13 S. R. B. Bearden , Y. R. Pei , M. Di Ventra

Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) refers to the problem of deciding the satisfiability of a formula with respect to certain background first order theories. In this paper, we focus on Satisfiablity Modulo Integer Arithmetic, which is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Shaowei Cai , Bohan Li , Xindi Zhang

The utility of satisfiability (SAT) as an application focused hard computational problem is well established. We explore the potential of quantum annealing to enhance classical SAT solving, especially where sampling from the space of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Kristen L. Pudenz , Gregory S. Tallant , Todd R. Belote , Steven H. Adachi

The Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) issue concerns the satisfiability of formulae from multiple background theories, usually expressed in the language of first-order predicate logic with equality. SMT solvers are often based on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Domenico Cantone , Andrea De Domenico , Pietro Maugeri

This paper develops a parallel computational solver for computing all satifying assignments of a Boolean system of equations defined by Boolean functions of several variables. While there are we known solvers for satisfiability of Boolean…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Virendra Sule

We present an experimental study of the effects of quantifier alternations on the evaluation of quantified Boolean formula (QBF) solvers. The number of quantifier alternations in a QBF in prenex conjunctive normal form (PCNF) is directly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Florian Lonsing , Uwe Egly