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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2025.16
Depth-Optimal Quantum Layout Synthesis as SAT

Authors: Anna B. Jakobsen, Anders B. Clausen, Jaco van de Pol, and Irfansha Shaik

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 341, 28th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2025)

Abstract
Quantum circuits consist of gates applied to qubits. Current quantum hardware platforms impose connectivity restrictions on binary CX gates. Hence, Layout Synthesis is an important step to transpile quantum circuits before they can be executed. Since CX gates are noisy, it is important to reduce the CX count or CX depth of the mapped circuits. We provide a new and efficient encoding of Quantum-circuit Layout Synthesis in SAT. Previous SAT encodings focused on gate count and CX-gate count. Our encoding instead guarantees that we find mapped circuits with minimal circuit depth or minimal CX-gate depth. We use incremental SAT solving and parallel plans for an efficient encoding. This results in speedups of more than 10-100x compared to OLSQ2, which guarantees depth-optimality. But minimizing depth still takes more time than minimizing gate count with Q-Synth. We correlate the noise reduction achieved by simulating circuits after (CX)-count and (CX)-depth reduction. We find that minimizing for CX-count correlates better with reducing noise than minimizing for CX-depth. However, taking into account both CX-count and CX-depth provides the best noise reduction.
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Anna B. Jakobsen, Anders B. Clausen, Jaco van de Pol, and Irfansha Shaik. Depth-Optimal Quantum Layout Synthesis as SAT. In 28th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 341, pp. 16:1-16:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{jakobsen_et_al:LIPIcs.SAT.2025.16,
  author =	{Jakobsen, Anna B. and Clausen, Anders B. and van de Pol, Jaco and Shaik, Irfansha},
  title =	{{Depth-Optimal Quantum Layout Synthesis as SAT}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2025)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-381-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{341},
  editor =	{Berg, Jeremias and Nordstr\"{o}m, Jakob},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2025.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-237501},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2025.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: Quantum Layout Synthesis, Transpiling, Circuit Mapping, Incremental SAT, Parallel Plans}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2025.28
CNOT-Optimal Clifford Synthesis as SAT

Authors: Irfansha Shaik and Jaco van de Pol

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 341, 28th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2025)

Abstract
Clifford circuit optimization is an important step in the quantum compilation pipeline. Major compilers employ heuristic approaches. While they are fast, their results are often suboptimal. Minimization of noisy gates, like 2-qubit CNOT gates, is crucial for practical computing. Exact approaches have been proposed to fill the gap left by heuristic approaches. Among these are SAT based approaches that optimize gate count or depth, but they suffer from scalability issues. Further, they do not guarantee optimality on more important metrics like CNOT count or CNOT depth. A recent work proposed an exhaustive search only on Clifford circuits in a certain normal form to guarantee CNOT count optimality. But an exhaustive approach cannot scale beyond 6 qubits. In this paper, we incorporate search restricted to Clifford normal forms in a SAT encoding to guarantee CNOT count optimality. By allowing parallel plans, we propose a second SAT encoding that optimizes CNOT depth. By taking advantage of flexibility in SAT based approaches, we also handle connectivity restrictions in hardware platforms, and allow for qubit relabeling. We have implemented the above encodings and variations in our open source tool Q-Synth. In experiments, our encodings significantly outperform existing SAT approaches on random Clifford circuits. We consider practical VQE and Feynman benchmarks to compare with TKET and Qiskit compilers. In all-to-all connectivity, we observe reductions up to 32.1% in CNOT count and 48.1% in CNOT depth. Overall, we observe better results than TKET in the CNOT count and depth. We also experiment with connectivity restrictions of major quantum platforms. Compared to Qiskit, we observe up to 30.3% CNOT count and 35.9% CNOT depth further reduction.
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Irfansha Shaik and Jaco van de Pol. CNOT-Optimal Clifford Synthesis as SAT. In 28th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 341, pp. 28:1-28:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{shaik_et_al:LIPIcs.SAT.2025.28,
  author =	{Shaik, Irfansha and van de Pol, Jaco},
  title =	{{CNOT-Optimal Clifford Synthesis as SAT}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2025)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-381-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{341},
  editor =	{Berg, Jeremias and Nordstr\"{o}m, Jakob},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2025.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-237621},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2025.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: Circuit Synthesis, Circuit Optimization, Quantum Circuits, Propositional Satisfiability, Parallel Plans, Clifford Circuits, Encodings}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/artifacts.22468
Q-Synth

Authors: Irfansha Shaik and Jaco van de Pol

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Irfansha Shaik, Jaco van de Pol. Q-Synth (Software). Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@misc{dagstuhl-artifact-22468,
   title = {{Q-Synth}}, 
   author = {Shaik, Irfansha and van de Pol, Jaco},
   note = {Software, version 2.0., IFD (Innovation Fund Denmark), swhId: \href{https://archive.softwareheritage.org/swh:1:dir:be31c57364bd541c6b65afac80603e9004cf4008;origin=https://github.com/irfansha/Q-Synth;visit=swh:1:snp:f376849e93533f1d9039b7cd543ed56b6edcf01d;anchor=swh:1:rev:553d54c9942b73a0246328d42565caaaaac38117}{\texttt{swh:1:dir:be31c57364bd541c6b65afac80603e9004cf4008}} (visited on 2024-11-28)},
   url = {https://github.com/irfansha/Q-Synth},
   doi = {10.4230/artifacts.22468},
}
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DOI: 10.4230/artifacts.22469
Q-Synth v2.0 release

Authors: Irfansha Shaik and Jaco van de Pol

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Irfansha Shaik, Jaco van de Pol. Q-Synth v2.0 release (Software, Github Tag). Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@misc{dagstuhl-artifact-22469,
   title = {{Q-Synth v2.0 release}}, 
   author = {Shaik, Irfansha and van de Pol, Jaco},
   note = {Software, version 2.0., IFD (Innovation Fund Denmark), swhId: \href{https://archive.softwareheritage.org/swh:1:dir:be31c57364bd541c6b65afac80603e9004cf4008;origin=https://github.com/irfansha/Q-Synth;visit=swh:1:snp:f376849e93533f1d9039b7cd543ed56b6edcf01d;anchor=swh:1:rev:553d54c9942b73a0246328d42565caaaaac38117}{\texttt{swh:1:dir:be31c57364bd541c6b65afac80603e9004cf4008}} (visited on 2024-11-28)},
   url = {https://github.com/irfansha/Q-Synth/releases/tag/Q-Synth-v2.0-SAT2024},
   doi = {10.4230/artifacts.22469},
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2024.26
Optimal Layout Synthesis for Deep Quantum Circuits on NISQ Processors with 100+ Qubits

Authors: Irfansha Shaik and Jaco van de Pol

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 305, 27th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2024)

Abstract
Layout synthesis is mapping a quantum circuit to a quantum processor. SWAP gate insertions are needed for scheduling 2-qubit gates only on connected physical qubits. With the ever-increasing number of qubits in NISQ processors, scalable layout synthesis is of utmost importance. With large optimality gaps observed in heuristic approaches, scalable exact methods are needed. While recent exact and near-optimal approaches scale to moderate circuits, large deep circuits are still out of scope. In this work, we propose a SAT encoding based on parallel plans that apply 1 SWAP and a group of CNOTs at each time step. Using domain-specific information, we maintain optimality in parallel plans while scaling to large and deep circuits. From our results, we show the scalability of our approach which significantly outperforms leading exact and near-optimal approaches (up to 100x). For the first time, we can optimally map several 8, 14, and 16 qubit circuits onto 54, 80, and 127 qubit platforms with up to 17 SWAPs. While adding optimal SWAPs, we also report near-optimal depth in our mapped circuits.
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Irfansha Shaik and Jaco van de Pol. Optimal Layout Synthesis for Deep Quantum Circuits on NISQ Processors with 100+ Qubits. In 27th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 305, pp. 26:1-26:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{shaik_et_al:LIPIcs.SAT.2024.26,
  author =	{Shaik, Irfansha and van de Pol, Jaco},
  title =	{{Optimal Layout Synthesis for Deep Quantum Circuits on NISQ Processors with 100+ Qubits}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2024)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-334-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{305},
  editor =	{Chakraborty, Supratik and Jiang, Jie-Hong Roland},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2024.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-205487},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2024.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: Layout Synthesis, Transpiling, Qubit Mapping and Routing, Quantum Circuits, Propositional Satisfiability, Parallel Plans}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2023.24
Validation of QBF Encodings with Winning Strategies

Authors: Irfansha Shaik, Maximilian Heisinger, Martina Seidl, and Jaco van de Pol

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 271, 26th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2023)

Abstract
When using a QBF solver for solving application problems encoded to quantified Boolean formulas (QBFs), mainly two things can potentially go wrong: (1) the solver could be buggy and return a wrong result or (2) the encoding could be incorrect. To ensure the correctness of solvers, sophisticated fuzzing and testing techniques have been presented. To ultimately trust a solving result, solvers have to provide a proof certificate that can be independently checked. Much less attention, however, has been paid to the question how to ensure the correctness of encodings. The validation of QBF encodings is particularly challenging because of the variable dependencies introduced by the quantifiers. In contrast to SAT, the solution of a true QBF is not simply a variable assignment, but a winning strategy. For each existential variable x, a winning strategy provides a function that defines how to set x based on the values of the universal variables that precede x in the quantifier prefix. Winning strategies for false formulas are defined dually. In this paper, we provide a tool for validating encodings using winning strategies and interactive game play with a QBF solver. As the representation of winning strategies can get huge, we also introduce validation based on partial winning strategies. Finally, we employ winning strategies for testing if two different encodings of one problem have the same solutions.
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Irfansha Shaik, Maximilian Heisinger, Martina Seidl, and Jaco van de Pol. Validation of QBF Encodings with Winning Strategies. In 26th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 271, pp. 24:1-24:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{shaik_et_al:LIPIcs.SAT.2023.24,
  author =	{Shaik, Irfansha and Heisinger, Maximilian and Seidl, Martina and van de Pol, Jaco},
  title =	{{Validation of QBF Encodings with Winning Strategies}},
  booktitle =	{26th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2023)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:10},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-286-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{271},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Slivovsky, Friedrich},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2023.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-184863},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2023.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: QBF, Validation, Winning Strategy, Equivalence, Certificates}
}
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