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A key challenge of quantum programming is uncomputation: the reversible deallocation of qubits. And while there has been much recent progress on automating uncomputation, state-of-the-art methods are insufficient for handling today's…

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The software package \emph{Qcompiler} (CPC, 184 (2013) 853) provides a general quantum compilation framework, which maps any given unitary operation into a quantum circuit consisting of a sequential set of elementary quantum gates. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 T. Loke , J. B. Wang

Quantum computing, with its vast potential, is fundamentally shaped by the intricacies of quantum mechanics, which both empower and constrain its capabilities. The development of a universal, robust quantum programming language has emerged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Viktorija Bezganovic , Marco Lewis , Sadegh Soudjani , Paolo Zuliani

Languages, compilers, and computer-aided design tools will be essential for scalable quantum computing, which promises an exponential leap in our ability to execute complex tasks. LIQUi|> is a modular software architecture designed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Dave Wecker , Krysta M. Svore

Emerging quantum applications such as error mitigation, system characterization, and hybrid protocols often require running large families of related quantum circuits. Existing intermediate representations (IRs) and frameworks such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Sourish Wawdhane , Sashwat Anagolum , Poulami Das , Yunong Shi

We benchmark the performances of Qrack, an open-source software library for the high-performance classical simulation of (gate-model) quantum computers. Qrack simulates, in the Schr\"odinger picture, the exact quantum state of $n$ qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Daniel Strano , Benn Bollay , Aryan Blaauw , Nathan Shammah , William J. Zeng , Andrea Mari

Developing state-of-the-art classical simulators of quantum circuits is of utmost importance to test and evaluate early quantum technology and understand the true potential of full-blown error-corrected quantum computers. In the past few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Salvatore Mandrà , Jeffrey Marshall , Eleanor G. Rieffel , Rupak Biswas

Quantum computing holds the potential to solve problems that are practically unsolvable by classical computers due to its ability to significantly reduce time complexity. We aim to harness this potential to enhance ray casting, a pivotal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Seungjae Lee , Suhui Jeong , Jiwon Seo

Quantum computing has made substantial progress in recent years; however, its scalability remains constrained on a monolithic quantum processing unit (QPU). Distributed quantum computing (DQC) offers a pathway by coordinating multiple QPUs…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sen Zhang , Lingjun Xiong , Yipie Liu , Brian L. Mark , Lei Yang , Zebo Yang , Weiwen Jiang

Hamiltonian simulation is a central application of quantum computing, with significant potential in modeling physical systems and solving complex optimization problems. Existing compilers for such simulations typically focus on low-level…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Liyi Li , Fenfen An , Federico Zahariev , Zhi Xiang Chong , Amr Sabry , Mark S. Gordon

Realizing a conceptual quantum algorithm on an actual physical device necessitates the algorithm's quantum circuit description to undergo certain transformations in order to adhere to all constraints imposed by the hardware. In this regard,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Lukas Burgholzer , Rudy Raymond , Robert Wille

Quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is one of the popular quantum algorithms that are used to solve combinatorial optimization problems via approximations. QAOA is able to be evaluated on both physical and virtual quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 Yu-Cheng Lin , Chuan-Chi Wang , Chia-Heng Tu , Shih-Hao Hung

Current methods for verifying quantum computers are predominately based on interactive or automatic theorem provers. Considering that quantum computers are dynamical in nature, this paper employs and extends the concepts from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Marco Lewis , Sadegh Soudjani , Paolo Zuliani

Optimizing quantum circuits is critical for enhancing computational speed and mitigating errors caused by quantum noise. Effective optimization must be achieved without compromising the correctness of the computations. This survey explores…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Krishnageetha Karuppasamy , Varun Puram , Stevens Johnson , Johnson P Thomas

The demonstration of quantum error correction (QEC) is one of the most important milestones in the realization of fully-fledged quantum computers. Toward this, QEC experiments using the surface codes have recently been actively conducted.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Mitsuki Katsuda , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

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

Quantum Error Correction (QEC) decoding faces a fundamental accuracy-efficiency tradeoff. Classical methods like Minimum Weight Perfect Matching (MWPM) exhibit variable performance across noise models and suffer from polynomial complexity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 David Zenati , Eliya Nachmani

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

We propose a novel approach, OrQstrator, which is a modular framework for conducting quantum circuit optimization in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. Our framework is powered by Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). Our…

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