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The quantum instruction set (QIS) is defined as the quantum gates that are physically realizable by controlling the qubits in quantum hardware. Compiling quantum circuits into the product of the gates in a properly defined QIS is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Ying Lu , Peng-Fei Zhou , Shao-Ming Fei , Shi-Ju Ran

We present Quokka#, a versatile, open-source Python library for quantum circuit analysis. Quokka# reduces various simulation, verification, and synthesis tasks to weighted model counting (#SAT). It supports universal quantum circuits and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jingyi Mei , Dekel Zak , Muhammad Osama , Tim Coopmans , Alfons Laarman

The quantum circuit model is an abstraction that hides the underlying physical implementation of gates and measurements on a quantum computer. For precise control of real quantum hardware, the ability to execute pulse and readout-level…

In this paper we present a translation from the quantum programming language Quipper to the QPMC model checker, with the main aim of verifying Quipper programs. Quipper is an embedded functional programming language for quantum computation.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Linda Anticoli , Carla Piazza , Leonardo Taglialegne , Paolo Zuliani

Quantum computers are on the brink of surpassing the capabilities of even the most powerful classical computers. This naturally raises the question of how one can trust the results of a quantum computer when they cannot be compared to…

We describe an embedding of the QWIRE quantum circuit language in the Coq proof assistant. This allows programmers to write quantum circuits using high-level abstractions and to prove properties of those circuits using Coq's theorem proving…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Robert Rand , Jennifer Paykin , Steve Zdancewic

Realistic benchmarks of reproducible bugs and fixes are vital to good experimental evaluation of debugging and testing approaches. However, there is no suitable benchmark suite that can systematically evaluate the debugging and testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Pengzhan Zhao , Jianjun Zhao , Zhongtao Miao , Shuhan Lan

In this paper, we present a general quantum computation compiler, which maps any given quantum algorithm to a quantum circuit consisting a sequential set of elementary quantum logic gates based on recursive cosine-sine decomposition. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Y. G. Chen , J. B. Wang

Neutral atom Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) are emerging as a popular quantum computing technology due to their large qubit counts and flexible connectivity. However, performance challenges arise as large circuits experience significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Francisco Romão , Daniel Vonk , Emmanuil Giortamis , Dennis Sprokholt , Pramod Bhatotia

The generation of reversible circuits from high-level code is an important problem in several application domains, including low-power electronics and quantum computing. Existing tools compile and optimize reversible circuits for various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Matthew Amy , Martin Roetteler , Krysta Svore

With the race to build large-scale quantum computers and efforts to exploit quantum algorithms for efficient problem solving in science and engineering disciplines, the requirement to have efficient and scalable verification methods are of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Arun Govindankutty , Sudarshan K. Srinivasan , Nimish Mathure

Quantum computers are expected to offer substantial speedups over their classical counterparts and to solve problems that are intractable for classical computers. Beyond such practical significance, the concept of quantum computation opens…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 Stefanie Barz , Joseph F. Fitzsimons , Elham Kashefi , Philip Walther

Quantum technologies are moving towards the development of novel hardware devices based on quantum bits (qubits). In parallel to the development of quantum devices, efficient simulation tools are needed in order to design and benchmark…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Stavros Efthymiou , Marco Lazzarin , Andrea Pasquale , Stefano Carrazza

Accurate classification of software bugs is essential for improving software quality. This paper presents a rule-based automated framework for classifying issues in quantum software repositories by bug type, category, severity, and impacted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mir Mohammad Yousuf , Shabir Ahmad Sofi

In recent years, various techniques have been explored for the verification of quantum circuits, including the use of barrier certificates, mathematical tools capable of demonstrating the correctness of such systems. These certificates…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Siwei Hu , Victor Lopata , Sadegh Soudjani , Paolo Zuliani

We present a verifier of quantum programs called AutoQ 2.0. Quantum programs extend quantum circuits (the domain of AutoQ 1.0) by classical control flow constructs, which enable users to describe advanced quantum algorithms in a formal and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yu-Fang Chen , Kai-Min Chung , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Wei-Jia Huang , Ondřej Lengál , Jyun-Ao Lin , Wei-Lun Tsai

Property-based testing has been previously proposed for quantum programs in Q# with QSharpCheck; however, this implementation was limited in functionality, lacked extensibility, and was evaluated on a narrow range of programs using a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Gabriel Pontolillo , Mohammad Reza Mousavi , Marek Grzesiuk

While recent progress in quantum hardware open the door for significant speedup in certain key areas, quantum algorithms are still hard to implement right, and the validation of such quantum programs is a challenge. Early attempts either…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Christophe Chareton , Sébastien Bardin , François Bobot , Valentin Perrelle , Benoit Valiron

The rapid development of quantum computing (QC) in the NISQ era urgently demands a low-level benchmark suite and insightful evaluation metrics for characterizing the properties of prototype NISQ devices, the efficiency of QC programming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Ang Li , Samuel Stein , Sriram Krishnamoorthy , James Ang

The rapid advancement of quantum computing has led to the development of various quantum libraries, empowering compilation, simulation, and hardware backend interfaces. However, ensuring the correctness of these libraries remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Jiaming Ye , Fuyuan Zhang , Shangzhou Xia , Xiaoyu Guo , Xiongfei Wu , Jianjun Zhao , Yinxing Xue