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In this paper, we extend past work done on the application of the mathematics of category theory to quantum information science. Specifically, we present a realization of a dagger-compact category that can model finite-dimensional quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 Ville Bergholm , Jacob D. Biamonte

Categorical Message Passing Language (CaMPL) is a functional-style concurrent programming language whose semantics is in category theory, more specifically, linear actegories. Its core programming feature is message passing along typed…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Daniel Kiyoshi Hashimoto , Alexanna Little Berg , Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan

This report introduces a novel class of reasoning architectures, termed Quantum Circuit Reasoning Models (QCRM), which extend the concept of Variational Quantum Circuits (VQC) from energy minimization and classification tasks to structured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Andrew Kiruluta

We present a construction, rendered in Quipper, of a quantum algorithm which probabilistically computes a classical function from n bits to n bits. The construction is intended to be of interest primarily for the features of Quipper it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 James L. Ulrich

We describe categorical models of a circuit-based (quantum) functional programming language. We show that enriched categories play a crucial role. Following earlier work on QWire by Paykin et al., we consider both a simple first-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mathys Rennela , Sam Staton

Quantum computers have leaped from the theoretical realm into a race to large-scale implementations. This is due to the promise of revolutionary speedups, where achieving such speedup requires designing an algorithm that harnesses the…

Quantum computation constitutes a rapidly expanding subfield of computer science. Development quantum algorithms is facilitated by the availability of efficient quantum programming languages, and a plethora of approaches has been already…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Arnab Chakraborty

We advance the thesis that the simulation of quantum circuits is fundamentally about the efficient management of a large (potentially exponential) number of delimited continuations. The family of Scheme languages, with its efficient…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Vikraman Choudhury , Borislav Agapiev , Amr Sabry

We introduce an abstract machine architecture for classical/quantum computations---including compilation---along with a quantum instruction language called Quil for explicitly writing these computations. With this formalism, we discuss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Robert S. Smith , Michael J. Curtis , William J. Zeng

In this work we introduce Qumin, a novel quantum programming language with a focus on providing an easy to use, minimalist, high-level, and easily extensible platform for quantum programming. Qumin's design concentrates on encompassing the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Alexander Singh , Konstantinos Giannakis , Theodore Andronikos

We present an imperative quantum programming language LanQ which was designed to support combination of quantum and classical programming and basic process operations - process creation and interprocess communication. The language can thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Hynek Mlnarik

This paper unites two research lines. The first involves finding categorical models of quantum programming languages and their type systems. The second line concerns the program of quantization of mathematical structures, which amounts to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Andre Kornell , Bert Lindenhovius , Michael Mislove

Quantum natural language processing (QNLP) offers a novel approach to semantic modeling by embedding compositional structure directly into quantum circuits. This paper investigates the application of QNLP models to the task of Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ling Sun , Peter Sullivan , Michael Martin , Yun Zhou

We introduce regular language states, a family of quantum many-body states. They are built from a special class of formal languages, called regular, which has been thoroughly studied in the field of computer science. They can be understood…

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

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

Quantum Intermediate Representation (QIR) is a Microsoft-developed, LLVM-based intermediate representation for quantum program compilers. QIR aims to provide a general solution for quantum program compilers independent of front-end…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Junjie Luo , Jianjun Zhao

This paper presents a novel semantics for a quantum programming language by operator algebras, which are known to give a formulation for quantum theory that is alternative to the one by Hilbert spaces. We show that the opposite category of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Kenta Cho

We show the Standard Model and SuperString Theories can be naturally based on a Quantum Computer foundation. The Standard Model of elementary particles can be viewed as defining a Quantum Computer Grammar and language. A Quantum Computer in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Blaha

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Philip Atzemoglou