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Partial incorrectness logic (partial reverse Hoare logic) has recently been introduced as a new Hoare-style logic that over-approximates the weakest pre-conditions of a program and a post-condition. It is expected to verify systems where…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yukihiro Oda

Applications like program synthesis sometimes require proving that a property holds for all of the infinitely many programs described by a grammar - i.e., an inductively defined set of programs. Current verification frameworks…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jinwoo Kim , Shaan Nagy , Thomas Reps , Loris D'Antoni

We establish fundamental and general techniques for formal verification of quantum protocols. Quantum protocols are novel communication schemes involving the use of quantum-mechanical phenomena for representation, storage and transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Gay , Rajagopal Nagarajan , Nikolaos Papanikolaou

We describe a successful attempt to formally verify a simple genetic algorithm written in Java. To this end, we compare several formal verification tools designed for Java, and select Krakatoa as the most appropriate for the task. Based on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Dmitry Brizhinev , Rajeev Goré

The continuous growth of quantum computing and the increasingly complex quantum programs resulting from it lead to unprecedented obstacles in ensuring program correctness. Runtime assertions are, therefore, becoming a crucial tool in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Damian Rovara , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

We want in this article to show the usefulness of Quantum Turing Machine (QTM) in a high-level didactic context as well as in theoretical studies. We use QTM to show its equivalence with quantum circuit model for Deutsch and Deutsch-Jozsa…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Giuseppe Corrente

In this work we advance a generalization of quantum computational logics capable of dealing with some important examples of quantum algorithms. We outline an algebraic axiomatization of these structures.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 Federico Holik , Giuseppe Sergioli , Hector Freytes , Angelo Plastino

Quantum information processing has been one of the pillars of the new information age. In this sense, the control and processing of quantum information plays a fundamental role, and computers capable of manipulating such information have…

Quipper is a recently released quantum programming language. In this report, we explore Quipper's programming framework by implementing the Deutsch's, Deutsch-Jozsa's, Simon's, Grover's, and Shor's factoring algorithms. It will help new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-19 Safat Siddiqui , Mohammed Jahirul Islam , Omar Shehab

This report presents a practical approach to teaching quantum computing to Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) students through dedicated hands-on programming labs. The labs cover a diverse range of topics, encompassing…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-08-20 Janche Sang , Chansu Yu

Good tools can bring mechanical verification to programs written in mainstream functional languages. We use hs-to-coq to translate significant portions of Haskell's containers library into Coq, and verify it against specifications that we…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Joachim Breitner , Antal Spector-Zabusky , Yao Li , Christine Rizkallah , John Wiegley , Stephanie Weirich

We introduce a novel quantum programming language featuring higher-order programs and quantum controlflow which ensures that all qubit transformations are unitary. Our language boasts a type system guaranteeingboth unitarity and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Alejandro Díaz-Caro , Emmanuel Hainry , Romain Péchoux , Mário Silva

We develop the first two heap logics that have implicit heaplets and that admit FO-complete program verification. The notion of FO-completeness is a theoretical guarantee that all theorems that are valid when recursive definitions are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Adithya Murali , Hrishikesh Balakrishnan , Aaron Councilman , P. Madhusudan

The unique features of the hybrid quantum-classical computing model implied by the specification of OpenQASM 3.0 motivate new approaches to quantum program verification. We implement and thoroughly test a QASM 3.0 parser in TypeScript to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Sean Kim , Marcus Edwards

The fact that classical mathematical proofs of simply existential statements can be read as programs was established by Goedel and Kreisel half a century ago. But the possibility of extracting useful computational content from classical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-01-28 Steffen van Bakel , Stefano Berardi , Ulrich Berger

The main contribution of this paper is the introduction of a dynamic logic formalism for reasoning about information flow in composite quantum systems. This builds on our previous work on a complete quantum dynamic logic for single systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Alexandru Baltag , Sonja Smets

With the increase in industrial applications using Answer Set Programming, the need for formal verification tools, particularly for critical applications, has also increased. During the program optimisation process, it would be desirable to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jan Heuer

As new advancements in the field of quantum computing lead to the development of increasingly complex programs, approaches to validate and debug these programs are becoming more important. To this end, methods employed in classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Damian Rovara , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

We explore the possibility of accelerating the formal verification of classical programs with a quantum computer. A common source of security flaws stems from the existence of common programming errors like use after free, null-pointer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Sebastian Issel , Kilian Tscharke , Pascal Debus

In this abstract we study the resource consumption of quantum programs. Specifically, we focus on the expected runtime of programs and, inspired by recent methods for probabilistic programs, we develop a calculus \`a la weakest precondition…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Federico Olmedo , Alejandro Díaz-Caro