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In this tutorial I will present how a combination of linear and dependent type can be useful to describe different properties about higher order programs. Linear types have been proved particularly useful to express properties of functions;…

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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

This tutorial guides a competent programmer through the crafting of a quantum circuit simulator from scratch, even for readers with almost no prior experience in quantum computing. Open source simulators for quantum circuits already exist,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Michael J. McGuffin , Jean-Marc Robert , Kazuki Ikeda

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 qprof, a new and extensible quantum program profiler able to generate profiling reports of various quantum circuits. We describe the internal structure and working of qprof and provide three practical examples on practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-15 Adrien Suau , Gabriel Staffelbach , Aida Todri-Sanial

We show that, on the abstraction level of quantum circuit diagrams, quantum circuit algorithms belong to the species of interactive sequential algorithms that we studied in earlier work. This observation leads to a natural specification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-24 Yuri Gurevich , Andreas Blass

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

In dependently typed programming, proofs of basic, structural properties can be embedded implicitly into programs and do not need to be written explicitly. Besides saving the effort of writing separate proofs, a most distinguishing and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Hsiang-Shang Ko

Constructing general programmable circuits to be able to run any given unitary operator efficiently on a quantum processor is of fundamental importance. We present a new quantum circuit design technique resulting two general programmable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-24 Anmer Daskin , Ananth Grama , Giorgos Kollias , Sabre Kais

Dependent types provide a lightweight and modular means to integrate programming and formal program verification. In particular, the types of programs written in dependently typed programming languages (Agda, Idris, F*, etc.) can be used to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Danel Ahman

We introduce the language QML, a functional language for quantum computations on finite types. Its design is guided by its categorical semantics: QML programs are interpreted by morphisms in the category FQC of finite quantum computations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 Thorsten Altenkirch , Jonathan Grattage

We define a language CQP (Communicating Quantum Processes) for modelling systems which combine quantum and classical communication and computation. CQP combines the communication primitives of the pi-calculus with primitives for measurement…

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

It is discussed a practical possibility of a provable programming of mathematics basing on intuitionism and the dependent types feature of a programming language.The principles of constructive mathematics and provable programming are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Sergei D. Meshveliani

This thesis studies the categorical formalisation of quantum computing, through the prism of type theory, in a three-tier process. The first stage of our investigation involves the creation of the dagger lambda calculus, a lambda calculus…

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