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We introduce a novel software-oriented model of quantum computation motivated by the practical constraints of near-term quantum hardware. In this model, gates are specified by constraints expressed in terms of Pauli observables, with each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 James R. Wootton , Merlin Incerti-Medici , Daniel Bultrini , Pierre Fromholz

Quantum network protocol development is crucial to realizing a production-grade network that can support distributed sensing, secure communication, and utility-scale quantum computation. However, the transition from laboratory demonstration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Robert J. Hayek , Joaquin Chung , Rajkumar Kettimuthu

Quantum computing is an emerging computational paradigm that leverages the laws of quantum mechanics to perform elementary logic operations. Existing programming models for quantum computing were designed with fault-tolerant hardware in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Tiffany M. Mintz , Alexander J. Mccaskey , Eugene F. Dumitrescu , Shirley V. Moore , Sarah Powers , Pavel Lougovski

We present Qibo, a new open-source software for fast evaluation of quantum circuits and adiabatic evolution which takes full advantage of hardware accelerators. The growing interest in quantum computing and the recent developments of…

Classical programming languages cannot model essential elements of complex systems such as true random number generation. This paper develops a formal programming language called the lambda-q calculus that addresses the fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip Maymin

Quantum computing holds great promise for surpassing the limits of classical devices in many fields. Despite impressive developments, however, current research is primarily focused on qubits. At the same time, quantum hardware based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Kevin Mato , Martin Ringbauer , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

We are in the midst of the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, where quantum computers are limited by noisy gates, some of which are more error-prone than others and can render the final computation incomprehensible. Quantum…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Pranav Sinha , Sumit Kumar Jha , Sunny Raj

In this work, we describe the design and architecture of the open-source Quantum Engine Compiler (qe-compiler) currently used in production for IBM Quantum systems. The qe-compiler is built using LLVM's Multi-Level Intermediate…

Quantum computing is a promising paradigm that may overcome the current computational power bottlenecks. The increasing maturity of quantum processors provides more possibilities for the development and implementation of quantum algorithms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Ge Yan , Wenjie Wu , Yuheng Chen , Kaisen Pan , Xudong Lu , Zixiang Zhou , Yuhan Wang , Ruocheng Wang , Junchi Yan

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…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-10-10 P. Gawron , J. Klamka , J. A. Miszczak , R. Winiarczyk

Quantum computing is no longer only a scientific interest but is rapidly becoming an industrially available technology that can potentially overcome the limits of classical computation. Over the last years, all major companies have provided…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Manuel De Stefano , Fabiano Pecorelli , Dario Di Nucci , Fabio Palomba , Andrea De Lucia

The intersection of quantum computing and quantum chemistry represents a promising frontier for achieving quantum utility in domains of both scientific and societal relevance. Owing to the exponential growth of classical resource…

Quantum computer programming is emerging as a new subject domain from multidisciplinary research in quantum computing, computer science, mathematics (especially quantum logic, lambda calculi, and linear logic), and engineering attempts to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Donald A. Sofge

Quantum computing comes with the potential to push computational boundaries in various domains including, e.g., cryptography, simulation, optimization, and machine learning. Exploiting the principles of quantum mechanics, new algorithms can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Julian Berberich , Robert L. Kosut , Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen

Yquant is a LaTeX-only package -- i.e., involving no external programs -- that allows to typeset quantum circuits in a simple and human-readable language. It is inspired by the well-known qasm language and in fact even supports this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-07 Benjamin Desef

Large language model (LLM)-based tools such as ChatGPT seem useful for classical programming assignments. The more specialized the field, the more likely they lack reliability because of the lack of data to train them. In the case of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yaiza Aragonés-Soria , Manuel Oriol

This document describes a quantum assembly language (QASM) called OpenQASM that is used to implement experiments with low depth quantum circuits. OpenQASM represents universal physical circuits over the CNOT plus SU(2) basis with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-17 Andrew W. Cross , Lev S. Bishop , John A. Smolin , Jay M. Gambetta

Quantum software development has largely focused on algorithms, with limited attention to software architecture. As computing moves toward hybrid quantum-classical systems, this gap limits scalability, reusability, and engineering rigor.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Arvind W. Kiwelekar , Shweta Tembe , Uzma G. A. Munde , Siddhesh Jadhav , Manjushree D. Laddha , Harsha R. Gaikwad

Quantum computers are becoming a reality and numerous quantum computing applications with a near-term perspective (e.g., for finance, chemistry, machine learning, and optimization) and with a long-term perspective (e.g., for cryptography or…