Conventions for Quantum Pseudocode
Quantum Physics
2022-11-07 v1
Abstract
A few conventions for thinking about and writing quantum pseudocode are proposed. The conventions can be used for presenting any quantum algorithm down to the lowest level and are consistent with a quantum random access machine (QRAM) model for quantum computing. In principle a formal version of quantum pseudocode could be used in a future extension of a conventional language.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2211.02559,
title = {Conventions for Quantum Pseudocode},
author = {E. Knill},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.02559},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
This is a report from 1996 that is still occasionally consulted but was not readily available in a modern format