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We present a representation for linguistic structure that we call a Fock-space representation, which allows us to embed problems in language processing into small quantum devices. We further develop a formalism for understanding both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Nathan Wiebe , Alex Bocharov , Paul Smolensky , Matthias Troyer , Krysta M Svore

The Quantum Computer Condition (QCC) provides a rigorous and completely general framework for carrying out analyses of questions pertaining to fault-tolerance in quantum computers. In this paper we apply the QCC to the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerald Gilbert , Michael Hamrick , F. Javier Thayer , Yaakov S. Weinstein

Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with quantum computing is a critical challenge, hindered by the severe constraints of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, including barren plateaus and limited coherence. Current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Yi Pan , Hanqi Jiang , Junhao Chen , Yiwei Li , Huaqin Zhao , Lin Zhao , Yohannes Abate , Yingfeng Wang , Tianming Liu

Quantum computing is a growing field with significant potential applications. Learning how to code quantum programs means understanding how qubits work and learning to use quantum gates. This is analogous to creating classical algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Tamás Varga , Yaiza Aragonés-Soria , Manuel Oriol

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

Classical program analysis techniques, such as abstract interpretation and symbolic execution, are essential for ensuring software correctness, optimizing performance, and enabling compiler optimizations. However, these techniques face…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yicheng Guang , Pietro Zanotta , Kai Zhou , Yueqi Chen , Ramin Ayanzadeh

The development of quantum computing technologies builds on the unique features of quantum physics while borrowing familiar principles from the design of conventional devices. We introduce the fundamental concepts required for designing and…

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 work develops a formal framework for specifying, implementing, and analysing quantum communication protocols. We provide tools for developing simple proofs and analysing programs which involve communication, both via quantum channels…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-07-30 Anya Tafliovich , Eric C. R. Hehner

Quantum computing (QC) represents the future of computing systems, but the tools for reasoning about the quantum model of computation, in which the laws obeyed are those on the quantum mechanical scale, are still a mix of linear algebra and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Carmelo R. Cartiere

A quantum circuit is a computational unit that transforms an input quantum state to an output one. A natural way to reason about its behavior is to compute explicitly the unitary matrix implemented by it. However, when the number of qubits…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Wenjun Shi , Qinxiang Cao , Yuxin Deng , Hanru Jiang , Yuan Feng

Conditional random field (CRF) is an important probabilistic machine learning model for labeling sequential data, which is widely utilized in natural language processing, bioinformatics and computer vision. However, training the CRF model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-07 Yusen Wu , Chao-Hua Yu , Binbin Cai , Sujuan Qin , Fei Gao , Qiaoyan Wen

Programming a quantum computer, i.e., implementing quantum algorithms on a quantum processor-based copmputer architecture, is a task that can be addressed (just as for classical computers) at different levels of abstraction. This paper…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Nicola Assolini , Alessandra Di Pierro

With the potential of quantum algorithms to solve intractable classical problems, quantum computing is rapidly evolving and more algorithms are being developed and optimized. Expressing these quantum algorithms using a high-level language…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 N. Khammassi , I. Ashraf , J. v. Someren , R. Nane , A. M. Krol , M. A. Rol , L. Lao , K. Bertels , C. G. Almudever

We propose a quantum programming paradigm where all data are familiar classical data, and the only non-classical element is a random number generator that can return results with negative probability. Currently, the vast majority of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Jun Inoue

We introduce a first-order quantum programming language, named FOQ, whose terminating programs are reversible. We restrict FOQ to a strict and tractable subset, named PFOQ, of terminating programs with bounded width, that provides a first…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Emmanuel Hainry , Romain Péchoux , Mário Silva

Modern quantum programming languages integrate quantum resources and classical control. They must, on the one hand, be linearly typed to reflect the no-cloning property of quantum resources. On the other hand, high-level and practical…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Peng Fu , Kohei Kishida , Peter Selinger

A few conventions for thinking about and writing quantum pseudocode are proposed. The conventions can be used for presenting any quantum algorithm down to the lowest level and are consistent with a quantum random access machine (QRAM) model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 E. Knill

Polylogarithmic time delineates a relevant notion of feasibility on several classical computational models such as Boolean circuits or parallel random access machines. As far as the quantum paradigm is concerned, this notion yields the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Florent Ferrari , Emmanuel Hainry , Romain Péchoux , Mário Silva

Quantum computing hardware is advancing at a rapid pace, yet the lack of high-level programming abstractions remains a serious bottleneck in the development of new applications. Widely used frameworks still rely on gate-level circuit…