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Static analysis is the analysis of a program without executing it, usually carried out by an automated tool. Symbolic execution is a popular static analysis technique used both in program verification and in bug detection software. It works…

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Correcting errors in real time is essential for reliable large-scale quantum computations. Realizing this high-level function requires a system capable of several low-level primitives, including single-qubit and two-qubit operations,…

Quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for realizing large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computation, yet its practical implementation remains a major engineering challenge. In particular, QEC demands precise real-time control of a…

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Quantum computing is poised to solve practically useful problems which are computationally intractable for classical supercomputers. However, the current generation of quantum computers are limited by errors that may only partially be…

The validation process for microprocessors is a very complex task that consumes substantial engineering time during the design process. Bugs that degrade overall system performance, without affecting its functional correctness, are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Erick Carvajal Barboza , Mahesh Ketkar , Michael Kishinevsky , Paul Gratz , Jiang Hu

Quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for practical quantum computing, as it protects fragile quantum information from errors by encoding it in high-dimensional Hilbert spaces. Conventional QEC protocols typically require repeated…

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

Analog and mixed-signal (A/MS) integrated circuits (ICs) are crucial in modern electronics, playing key roles in signal processing, amplification, sensing, and power management. Many IC companies outsource manufacturing to third-party…

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Reliability is an important requirement for both communication and storage systems. Due to continuous scale down of technology multiple adjacent bits error probability increases. The data may be corrupted due soft errors. Error correction…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Sayan Tripathi , Jhilam Jana , Jaydeb Bhaumik

Quantum error correction (QEC) with single-shot decoding enables reduction of errors after every single round of noisy stabilizer measurement, easing the time-overhead requirements for fault tolerance. Notably, several classes of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Shilin Huang , Shruti Puri

We propose an autonomous quantum error correction scheme using squeezed cat (SC) code against the dominant error source, excitation loss, in continuous-variable systems. Through reservoir engineering, we show that a structured dissipation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Qian Xu , Guo Zheng , Yu-Xin Wang , Peter Zoller , Aashish A. Clerk , Liang Jiang

Quantum computers hold the potential to surpass classical computers in solving complex computational problems. However, the fragility of quantum information and the error-prone nature of quantum operations make building large-scale,…

Dynamic symbolic execution (DSE) is a powerful method for path exploration during hybrid fuzzing and automatic bug detection. We propose security predicates to effectively detect undefined behavior and memory access violation errors.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Alexey Vishnyakov , Vlada Logunova , Eli Kobrin , Daniil Kuts , Darya Parygina , Andrey Fedotov

Recent advances in quantum error correction (QEC) across hardware platforms have demonstrated operation near and beyond the fault-tolerance threshold, yet achieving exponential suppression of logical errors through code scaling remains a…

Broad applications of quantum computers will require error correction (EC). However, quantum hardware roadmaps indicate that physical qubit numbers will remain limited in the foreseeable future, leading to residual logical errors that limit…

Approximate computing is an attractive paradigm for reducing the design complexity of error-resilient systems, therefore improving performance and saving power consumption. In this work, we propose a new two-level approximate logic…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Gabriel Ammes , Walter Lau Neto , Paulo Butzen , Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon , Renato P. Ribas

Ensuring that safety-critical applications behave as intended is an important yet challenging task. Modeling languages like differential dynamic logic (dL) have proof calculi capable of proving guarantees for such applications. However, dL…

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We study the performance of quantum error correction codes (QECCs) under the detection-induced coherent error due to the imperfectness of practical implementations of stabilizer measurements, after running a quantum circuit. Considering the…

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