Higher-order semantics for quantum programming languages with classical control
Logic in Computer Science
2013-11-27 v1 Programming Languages
Category Theory
Quantum Physics
Abstract
This thesis studies the categorical formalisation of quantum computing, through the prism of type theory, in a three-tier process. The first stage of our investigation involves the creation of the dagger lambda calculus, a lambda calculus for dagger compact categories. Our second contribution lifts the expressive power of the dagger lambda calculus, to that of a quantum programming language, by adding classical control in the form of complementary classical structures and dualisers. Finally, our third contribution demonstrates how our lambda calculus can be applied to various well known problems in quantum computation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1311.6563,
title = {Higher-order semantics for quantum programming languages with classical control},
author = {Philip Atzemoglou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.6563},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
DPhil Thesis. See full text for unabridged abstract