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Optimization problems pervade essentially every scientific discipline and industry. Many such problems require finding a solution that maximizes the number of constraints satisfied. Often, these problems are particularly difficult to solve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Fabio L. Traversa , Pietro Cicotti , Forrest Sheldon , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Many approaches such as Quine-McCluskey algorithm, Karnaugh map solving, Petrick's method and McBoole's method have been devised to simplify Boolean expressions in order to optimize hardware implementation of digital circuits. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Shanka Subhra Mondal , Abhilash Nandy , Ritesh Agrawal , Debashis Sen

Circuit cutting was originally designed to retrieve the expectation value of an observable with respect to a large quantum circuit by executing smaller circuit fragments. In this work, however, we demonstrate the application of circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Friedrich Wagner , Christian Ufrecht , Martin Braun , Daniel D. Scherer

In this work we investigate into energy complexity, a Boolean function measure related to circuit complexity. Given a circuit $\mathcal{C}$ over the standard basis $\{\vee_2,\wedge_2,\neg\}$, the energy complexity of $\mathcal{C}$, denoted…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Xiaoming Sun , Yuan Sun , Kewen Wu , Zhiyu Xia

In electronic design automation, logic optimization operators play a crucial role in minimizing the gate count of logic circuits. However, their computation demands are high. Operators such as refactor conventionally form iterative cuts for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dimitris Tsaras , Xing Li , Lei Chen , Zhiyao Xie , Mingxuan Yuan

Executing quantum algorithms on a quantum computer requires compilation to representations that conform to all restrictions imposed by the device. Due to devices' limited coherence times and gate fidelities, the compilation process has to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Sarah Schneider , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

The minimum circuit size problem (MCSP) is a string compression problem with a parameter $s$ in which, given the truth table of a Boolean function over inputs of length $n$, one must answer whether it can be computed by a Boolean circuit of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Augusto Modanese

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

In this paper, we present a novel algorithm to solve the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem, using noise-based logic (NBL). Contrary to what the name may suggest, NBL is not a random/fuzzy logic system. In fact, it is a completely…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-10-05 Pey-Chang Kent Lin , Ayan Mandal , Sunil P Khatri

Computer programs, so-called solvers, for solving the well-known Boolean satisfiability problem (Sat) have been improving for decades. Among the reasons, why these solvers are so fast, is the implicit usage of the formula's structural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Markus Hecher

Systems of Boolean equations of low degree arise in a natural way when analyzing block ciphers. The cipher's round functions relate the secret key to auxiliary variables that are introduced by each successive round. In algebraic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Bjørn Møller Greve , Håvard Raddum , Gunnar Fløystad , Øyvind Ytrehus

Quantum computers are currently noisy, particularly without error correction and fault tolerance. Methods like error suppression and mitigation are widely used to improve performance. Circuit cutting, which partitions a circuit into smaller…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Debasmita Bhoumik , Ritajit Majumdar , Amit Saha , Susmita Sur-Kolay

Quantum circuit optimization - the process of transforming a quantum circuit into an equivalent one with reduced time and space requirements - is crucial for maximizing the utility of current and near-future quantum devices. While most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Marcin Szyniszewski , Aleks Kissinger , Noah Linden , Paul Skrzypczyk

In this paper a low power multiplier is proposed. The proposed multiplier utilizes Broken-Array Multiplier approximation method on the conventional modified Booth multiplier. This method reduces the total power consumption of multiplier up…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Farzad Farshchi , Muhammad Saeed Abrishami , Sied Mehdi Fakhraie

The use of Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solver for hardware verification incurs exponential run-time in several instances. In this work we have proposed an efficient quantum SAT (qSAT) solver for equivalence checking of Boolean circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Abhoy Kole , Mohammed E. Djeridane , Lennart Weingarten , Kamalika Datta , Rolf Drechsler

We present a set of methods to generate less complex error channels by quantum circuit parallelisation. The resulting errors are simplified as a consequence of their symmetrisation and randomisation. Initially, the case of a single error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 James Mills , Debasis Sadhukhan , Elham Kashefi

Stochastic computing (SC) is an emerging computing technique that promises high density, low power, and error tolerant solutions. In SC, values are encoded as unary bitstreams and SC arithmetic circuits operate on one or more bitstreams. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-14 Vincent T. Lee , Armin Alaghi , Luis Ceze

We explore a method for automatically recompiling a quantum circuit A into a target circuit B, with the goal that both circuits have the same action on a specific input i.e. B|in> = A|in>. This is of particular relevance to hybrid, NISQ-era…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Tyson Jones , Simon C Benjamin

Quantum circuits are time dependent diagrams describing the process of quantum computation. Usually, a quantum algorithm must be mapped into a quantum circuit. Optimal synthesis of quantum circuits is intractable and heuristic methods must…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-27 D. Maslov , G. W. Dueck , D. M. Miller , C. Negrevergne

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) has an extensive application domain in computer science, especially in electronic design automation applications. Circuit synthesis, optimization, and verification problems can be solved by transforming original…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Te-Hsuan Chen , Ju-Yi Lu