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Quantum computing and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) are respectively the state-of-the-art quantum and classical computing methods for understanding many-body quantum systems. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that integrates…

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We introduce a model-checking tool intended specially for the analysis of quantum information protocols. The tool incorporates an efficient representation of a certain class of quantum circuits, namely those expressible in the so-called…

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Numerical simulation is an important method for verifying the quantum circuits used to simulate low-energy nuclear states. However, real-world applications of quantum computing for nuclear theory often generate deep quantum circuits that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Ang Li , Alessandro Baroni , Ionel Stetcu , Travis S. Humble

With advances in quantum computing, researchers can now write and run many quantum programs. However, there is still a lack of effective methods for debugging quantum programs. In this paper, quantum symbolic execution (QSE) is proposed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Jiang Nan , Wang Zichen , Wang Jian

Equivalence checking of quantum circuits is a central verification task in quantum computing, ensuring the correctness of circuit optimizations, hardware mappings, and compilation pipelines. Among the primary symbolic methods for this…

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We consider recent works on the simulation of quantum circuits using the formalism of matrix product states and the formalism of contracting tensor networks. We provide simplified direct proofs of many of these results, extending an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Jozsa

For quantum computer circuits, it is proposed that they have, besides the presently used compact graphs, an expanded system of subgraphs, in line with the quantum mechanics superposition axiom. The representation of each process by these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 Helio V. Fagundes

We define QSE, a symbolic execution framework for quantum programs by integrating symbolic variables into quantum states and the outcomes of quantum measurements. The soundness of QSE is established through a theorem that ensures the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Wang Fang , Mingsheng Ying

Optimal implementation of quantum gates is crucial for designing a quantum computer. We consider the matrix representation of an arbitrary multiqubit gate. By ordering the basis vectors using the Gray code, we construct the quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juha J. Vartiainen , Mikko Mottonen , Martti M. Salomaa

We introduce CircuitQ, an open-source toolbox for the analysis of superconducting circuits implemented in Python. It features the automated construction of a symbolic Hamiltonian of the input circuit and a dynamic numerical representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-29 Philipp Aumann , Tim Menke , William D. Oliver , Wolfgang Lechner

This work proposes numerical tests which determine whether a two-qubit operator has an atypically simple quantum circuit. Specifically, we describe formulae, written in terms of matrix coefficients, characterizing operators implementable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vivek V. Shende , Stephen S. Bullock , Igor L. Markov

We present a quantum circuit representation consisting entirely of qubit initialisations (I), a network of controlled-NOT gates (C) and measurements with respect to different bases (M). The ICM representation is useful for optimisation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Alexandru Paler , Ilia Polian , Kae Nemoto , Simon J. Devitt

In this work, we propose a class of equational theories for bounded binary circuits that have the finite variant property. These theories could serve as a building block to specify cryptographic primitive implementations and automatically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Michiel Marcus , Frank Westers , Anne Nijsten

The development of new superconducting circuits and the improvement of existing ones rely on the accurate modeling of spectral properties which are key to achieving the needed advances in qubit performance. Systematic circuit analysis at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Sai Pavan Chitta , Tianpu Zhao , Ziwen Huang , Ian Mondragon-Shem , Jens Koch

A model for quantum tunnelling of a cluster comprising A identical particles, coupled by oscillator-type potential, through short-range repulsive potential barriers is introduced for the first time in the new symmetrized-coordinate…

The current generation of quantum computing technologies call for quantum algorithms that require a limited number of qubits and quantum gates, and which are robust against errors. A suitable design approach are variational circuits where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-10 Maria Schuld , Alex Bocharov , Krysta Svore , Nathan Wiebe

A quantum computer based on an asymmetric coupled dot system has been proposed and shown to operate as the controlled-NOT-gate. The basic idea is (1) the electron is localized in one of the asymmetric coupled dots. (2)The electron transfer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Tetsufumi Tanamoto

Many quantum algorithms make use of oracles which evaluate classical functions on a superposition of inputs. In order to facilitate implementation, testing, and resource estimation of such algorithms, we present quantum circuits for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-01 Thomas Häner , Martin Roetteler , Krysta M. Svore

Quantum Hamiltonian Computing is a recent approach that uses quantum systems, in particular a single molecule, to perform computational tasks. Within this approach, we present explicit methods to construct logic gates using two different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Omid Faizy Namarvar , Olivier Giraud , Bertrand Georgeot , Christian Joachim

Quantum circuit synthesis describes the process of converting arbitrary unitary operations into a gate sequence of a fixed universal gate set, usually defined by the operations native to a given hardware platform. Most current synthesis…