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The Proto-Quipper family of programming languages aims to provide a formal foundation for the Quipper quantum programming language. Unfortunately, Proto-Quipper languages have complex operational semantics: they are inherently effectful,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Ryan Kavanagh , Chuta Sano , Brigitte Pientka

Due to recent technological advances, actual quantum devices are being constructed and used to perform computations. As a result, many classical problems are being restated so as to be solved on quantum computers. Some examples include…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Matthew B. Crawford

A quantum computer (QC) can solve many computational problems more efficiently than a classic one. The field of QCs is growing: companies (such as DWave, IBM, Google, and Microsoft) are building QC offerings. We position that software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Andriy Miranskyy , Lei Zhang

Quantum computers promise to transform our notions of computation by offering a completely new paradigm. To achieve scalable quantum computation, optimizing compilers and a corresponding software design flow will be essential. We present a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Thomas Häner , Damian S. Steiger , Krysta Svore , Matthias Troyer

Parameterized quantum circuits (PQC, aka, variational quantum circuits) are among the proposals for a computational advantage over classical computation of near-term (not fault tolerant) digital quantum computers. PQCs have to be "trained"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-01 Evgenii Dolzhkov , Bahman Ghandchi , Dirk Oliver Theis

We define syntax and semantics of quantum circuits, allowing measurement gates and classical channels. We define circuit-based quantum algorithms and prove that, semantically, any such algorithm is equivalent to a single measurement that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Yuri Gurevich , Andreas Blass

Quantum reservoir computing has emerged as a promising paradigm within the field of quantum machine learning, harnessing the inherent properties of quantum systems to optimise and enhance information processing capabilities. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Adam Burgess , Marian Florescu

We describe a quantum error correction scheme aimed at protecting a flow of quantum information over long distance communication. It is largely inspired by the theory of classical convolutional codes which are used in similar circumstances…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Ollivier , J. -P. Tillich

Quantum computing (QC) is a new paradigm offering the potential of exponential speedups over classical computing for certain computational problems. Each additional qubit doubles the size of the computational state space available to a QC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Wei Tang , Teague Tomesh , Martin Suchara , Jeffrey Larson , Margaret Martonosi

In this thesis, we introduce a new quantum Turing machine (QTM) model that supports general quantum operators, together with its pushdown, counter, and finite automaton variants, and examine the computational power of classical and quantum…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-03 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

We present a number of quantum computing patterns that build on top of fundamental algorithms, that can be applied to solving concrete, NP-hard problems. In particular, we introduce the concept of a quantum dictionary as a summation of…

In recent developments, deep learning methodologies applied to Natural Language Processing (NLP) have revealed a paradox: They improve performance but demand considerable data and resources for their training. Alternatively, quantum…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Farha Nausheen , Khandakar Ahmed , M Imad Khan , Farina Riaz

We present qcor - a language extension to C++ and compiler implementation that enables heterogeneous quantum-classical programming, compilation, and execution in a single-source context. Our work provides a first-of-its-kind C++ compiler…

We introduce Qunity, a new quantum programming language designed to treat quantum computing as a natural generalization of classical computing. Qunity presents a unified syntax where familiar programming constructs can have both quantum and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Finn Voichick , Liyi Li , Robert Rand , Michael Hicks

High-performance computing (HPC) has evolved over decades through multiple architectural transitions, from vector supercomputers to massively parallel CPU clusters and GPU-accelerated systems, continuously expanding the frontier of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Suman Raj , Siva Sai , Yogesh Simmhan , Kyle Chard , Rajkumar Buyya

An enduring challenge in computer science is reducing the runtime required to solve computational problems. Quantum computing has attracted significant attention due to its potential to deliver asymptotically faster solutions to certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Mischa P. Woods

Quantum computing will change the way we tackle certain problems. It promises to dramatically speed-up many chemical, financial, and machine-learning applications. However, to capitalize on those promises, complex design flows composed of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

Quantum autoencoder is a quantum neural network model for compressing information stored in quantum states. However, one needs to process information stored in quantum circuits for many tasks in the emerging quantum information technology.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Jun Wu , Hao Fu , Mingzheng Zhu , Haiyue Zhang , Wei Xie , Xiang-Yang Li

This paper describes a quantum programming environment, named $Q|SI\rangle$. It is a platform embedded in the .Net language that supports quantum programming using a quantum extension of the $\mathbf{while}$-language. The framework of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-27 Shusen Liu , Xin Wang , Li Zhou , Ji Guan , Yinan Li , Yang He , Runyao Duan , Mingsheng Ying

We propose a model of a programmable quantum processing device realizable with existing nanophotonic technologies and which can be viewed as a basis for new high performance hardware architectures. We present protocols and their physical…