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The paper extends the expectation transformer based analysis of higher-order probabilistic programs to the quantum higher-order setting. The quantum language we are considering can be seen as an extension of PCF, featuring unbounded…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Martin Avanzini , Alejandro Díaz-Caro , Emmanuel Hainry , Romain Péchoux

Originally inspired by categorical quantum mechanics (Abramsky and Coecke, LiCS'04), the categorical compositional distributional model of natural language meaning of Coecke, Sadrzadeh and Clark provides a conceptually motivated procedure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-02-05 Robin Piedeleu , Dimitri Kartsaklis , Bob Coecke , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

We define a formal framework for reasoning about linear-time properties of quantum systems in which quantum automata are employed in the modeling of systems and certain closed subspaces of state (Hilbert) spaces are used as the atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 Mingsheng Ying , Yangjia Li , Nengkun Yu , Yuan Feng

A quantum processor is a device with a data register and a program register. The input to the program register determines the operation, which is a completely positive linear map, that will be performed on the state in the data register. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mark Hillery , Mario Ziman , Vladimir Buzek

We present VOQC, the first fully verified optimizer for quantum circuits, written using the Coq proof assistant. Quantum circuits are expressed as programs in a simple, low-level language called SQIR, a simple quantum intermediate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Kesha Hietala , Robert Rand , Shih-Han Hung , Xiaodi Wu , Michael Hicks

Quantum process tomography is a procedure by which the unknown dynamical evolution of an open quantum system can be fully experimentally characterized. We demonstrate explicitly how this procedure can be implemented with a nuclear magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew M. Childs , Isaac L. Chuang , Debbie W. Leung

This paper shows a novel way of simulating a Markov process by a quantum computer. The main purpose of the paper is to show a particular application of quantum computing in the field of stochastic processes analysis. Using a Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Petar Nikolov

Quantum computers have leaped from the theoretical realm into a race to large-scale implementations. This is due to the promise of revolutionary speedups, where achieving such speedup requires designing an algorithm that harnesses the…

This invited paper presents an overview of an ongoing research program aimed at extending the Curry-Howard-Lambek correspondence to quantum computation. We explore two key frameworks that provide both logical and computational foundations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Alejandro Díaz-Caro

As large language models (LLMs) become integral to code-related tasks, a central question emerges: Do LLMs truly understand program semantics? We introduce EquiBench, a new benchmark for evaluating LLMs through equivalence checking, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Anjiang Wei , Jiannan Cao , Ran Li , Hongyu Chen , Yuhui Zhang , Ziheng Wang , Yuan Liu , Thiago S. F. X. Teixeira , Diyi Yang , Ke Wang , Alex Aiken

Probabilistic model checking is a widely used formal verification technique to automatically verify qualitative and quantitative properties for probabilistic models. However, capturing such systems, writing corresponding properties, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Kangfeng Ye , Fang Yan , Simos Gerasimou

This paper discusses the use of computer-aided verification as a practical means for analysing quantum information systems; specifically, the BB84 protocol for quantum key distribution is examined using this method. This protocol has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Rajagopal Nagarajan , Nikolaos Papanikolaou , Garry Bowen , Simon Gay

Distributed quantum systems and especially the Quantum Internet have the ever-increasing potential to fully demonstrate the power of quantum computation. This is particularly true given that developing a general-purpose quantum computer is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Yuan Feng , Sanjiang Li , Mingsheng Ying

We describe the qFunctions Mathematica package for $q$-series and partition theory applications. This package includes both experimental and symbolic tools. The experimental set of elements includes guessers for $q$-shift equations and…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jakob Ablinger , Ali K. Uncu

The widely held belief that BQP strictly contains BPP raises fundamental questions: Upcoming generations of quantum computers might already be too large to be simulated classically. Is it possible to experimentally test that these systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-18 Dorit Aharonov , Michael Ben-Or , Elad Eban

Programming-by-Example (PBE) systems synthesize an intended program in some (relatively constrained) domain-specific language from a small number of input-output examples provided by the user. In this paper, we motivate and define the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Sumit Gulwani , Kunal Pathak , Arjun Radhakrishna , Ashish Tiwari , Abhishek Udupa

We present a method for constructing a quantum Markov partition. Its elements are obtained by quantizing the characteristic function of the classical rectangles. The result is a set of quantum operators which behave asymptotically as…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Raul O. Vallejos , Marcos Saraceno

We introduce a type system for the Quipper language designed to derive upper bounds on the size of the circuits produced by the typed program. This size can be measured according to various metrics, including width, depth and gate count,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Andrea Colledan , Ugo Dal Lago

Quantum programs are notoriously difficult to code and verify due to unintuitive quantum knowledge associated with quantum programming. Automated tools relieving the tedium and errors associated with low-level quantum details would hence be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 Haowei Deng , Runzhou Tao , Yuxiang Peng , Xiaodi Wu