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Quantum Software (QSW) uses the principles of quantum mechanics, specifically programming quantum bits (qubits) that manipulate quantum gates, to implement quantum computing systems. QSW has become a specialized field of software…

Quantum computing (QC) is no longer only a scientific interest but is rapidly becoming an industrially available technology that can potentially tackle the limitations of classical computing. Over the last few years, major technology giants…

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The quantum assembly language (QASM) is a popular intermediate representation used in many quantum compilation and simulation tools to describe quantum circuits. Currently, multiple different dialects of QASM are used in different quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 N. Khammassi , G. G. Guerreschi , I. Ashraf , J. W. Hogaboam , C. G. Almudever , K. Bertels

We introduce isQ, a new software stack for quantum programming in an imperative programming language, also named isQ. The aim of isQ is to make the programmers write quantum programs as conveniently as possible. In particular: 1) The isQ…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Jingzhe Guo , Huazhe Lou , Riling Li , Wang Fang , Junyi Liu , Peixun Long , Shenggang Ying , Mingsheng Ying

Recent advancements in quantum computing (QC) and machine learning (ML) have fueled significant research efforts aimed at integrating these two transformative technologies. Quantum machine learning (QML), an emerging interdisciplinary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Zhiding Liang

Quantum engineering seeks to exploit quantum information to build, among others, computing, cybersecurity, and metrology technologies. Quantum Software Engineering (QSE) focuses on the information processing side of these technologies.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Francisco Valdes-Souto , Hector G. Perez-Gonzalez , Carlos A. Perez-Delgado

Evaluating the performance of quantum devices is an important step towards scaling quantum devices and eventually using them in practice. The great number of available quantum metrics and the different hardware technologies used to develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Ward van der Schoot , Robert Wezeman , Niels M. P. Neumann , Frank Phillipson , Rob Kooij

Large language models (LLMs) promise transformative change to fields as diverse as medical diagnosis, legal services, and software development. One reason for such an impact is LLMs' ability to make highly technical endeavors more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Elena R. Henderson , Jessie M. Henderson , Joshua Ange , Mitchell A. Thornton

Quantum computers have the potential to provide an advantage over classical computers in a number of areas. Numerous metrics to benchmark the performance of quantum computers, ranging from their individual hardware components to entire…

We present a basic high-level structures used for developing quantum programming languages. The presented structures are commonly used in many existing quantum programming languages and we use quantum pseudo-code based on QCL quantum…

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This paper proposes a descriptive language called QHDL, akin to VHDL, to program gate-based quantum computing systems. Unlike other popular quantum programming languages, QHDL targets low-level quantum computing programming and aims to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Gilbert Netzer , Stefano Markidis

The emergence of quantum computing and related technologies presents opportunities for enhancing network security. The transition towards quantum computational power paves the way for creating strategies to mitigate the constantly advancing…

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This paper introduces QuanUML, an extension of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) tailored for quantum software systems. QuanUML integrates quantum-specific constructs, such as qubits and quantum gates, into the UML framework, enabling the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xiaoyu Guo , Shinobu Saito , Jianjun Zhao

This tutorial intends to introduce readers with a background in AI to quantum machine learning (QML) -- a rapidly evolving field that seeks to leverage the power of quantum computers to reshape the landscape of machine learning. For…

Quantum computing, albeit readily available as hardware or emulated on the cloud, is still far from being available in general regarding complex programming paradigms and learning curves. This vision paper introduces $Classi|Q\rangle$, a…

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We use the benefits and components of classical computers every day. However, there are many types of problems which, as they grow in size, their computational complexity grows larger than classical computers will ever be able to solve.…

Methods of artificial intelligence (AI) and especially machine learning (ML) have been growing ever more complex, and at the same time have more and more impact on people's lives. This leads to explainable AI (XAI) manifesting itself as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Raoul Heese , Thore Gerlach , Sascha Mücke , Sabine Müller , Matthias Jakobs , Nico Piatkowski

Quantum software engineering (QSE) is receiving increasing attention, as evidenced by increasing publications on topics, e.g., quantum software modeling, testing, and debugging. However, in the literature, quantum software requirements…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Tao Yue , Shaukat Ali , Paolo Arcaini

Quantum programming techniques and software have advanced significantly over the past five years, with a majority focusing on high-level language frameworks targeting remote REST library APIs. As quantum computing architectures advance and…

Quantum machine learning (QML) is a rapidly growing field that combines quantum computing principles with traditional machine learning. It seeks to revolutionize machine learning by harnessing the unique capabilities of quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Jun Qi , Chao-Han Yang , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Pin-Yu Chen