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Quantum computing holds great promise for surpassing the limits of classical devices in many fields. Despite impressive developments, however, current research is primarily focused on qubits. At the same time, quantum hardware based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Kevin Mato , Martin Ringbauer , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

Quantum computing (QC) is no longer only a scientific interest but is rapidly becoming an industrially available technology that can potentially tackle the limitations of classical computing. Over the last few years, major technology giants…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Arif Ali Khan , Sajjad Mahmood , Saima Rafi

Quantum computing is a radical new paradigm for a technology that is capable to revolutionize information processing. Simulators of universal quantum computer are important for understanding the basic principles and operations of the…

We introduce the PBS-calculus to represent and reason on quantum computations involving coherent control of quantum operations. Coherent control, and in particular indefinite causal order, is known to enable multiple computational and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Alexandre Clément , Simon Perdrix

Classical branching programs are studied to understand the space complexity of computational problems. Prior to this work, Nakanishi and Ablayev had separately defined two different quantum versions of branching programs that we refer to as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Debajyoti Bera , Tharrmashastha Sapv

There exist various Software Development Kits (SDKs) tailored to different quantum computing platforms. These are known as Quantum SDKs (QSDKs). Examples include but are not limited to Qiskit, Cirq, and PennyLane. However, this diversity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Nazanin Siavash , Armin Moin

Universal set of quantum gates are realized from the conduction-band electron spin qubits of quantum dots embedded in a microcavity via two-channel Raman interaction. All of the gate operations are independent of the cavity mode states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-20 Ping Dong , Ming Yang , Zhuo-Liang Cao

While significant progress has been made on the hardware side of quantum computing, support for high-level quantum programming abstractions remains underdeveloped compared to classical programming languages. In this article, we introduce…

Quantum computing is a new emerging computer technology. Current quantum computing devices are at a development stage where they are gradually becoming suitable for small real-world applications. This lecture is devoted to the practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Madita Willsch , Dennis Willsch , Kristel Michielsen

Over the last decade, Quantum Computing hardware has rapidly developed and become a very intriguing, promising, and active research field among scientists worldwide. To achieve the desired quantum functionalities, quantum algorithms require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Shamminuj Aktar , Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy , Nandakishore Santhi

We introduce an abstract machine architecture for classical/quantum computations---including compilation---along with a quantum instruction language called Quil for explicitly writing these computations. With this formalism, we discuss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Robert S. Smith , Michael J. Curtis , William J. Zeng

High fidelity coherent control of quantum systems is critical to building quantum devices and quantum computers. We provide a general optimal control framework for designing control sequences that account for hardware control distortions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Ian N. Hincks , Christopher Granade , Troy W. Borneman , D. G. Cory

Quantum computing has demonstrated the potential to solve computationally intensive problems more efficiently than classical methods. Many software engineering tasks, such as test case selection, static analysis, code clone detection, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jianjun Zhao

Quantum computing provides computational advantages in various domains. To benefit from these advantages complex hybrid quantum applications must be built, which comprise both quantum and classical programs. Engineering these applications…

Discrete time quantum walks are known to be universal for quantum computation. This has been proven by showing that they can simulate a universal quantum gate set. In this paper, we examine computation by quantum walks in terms of language…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Katie Barr , Viv Kendon

Implementing a qubit quantum computer in continuous-variable systems conventionally requires the engineering of specific interactions according to the encoding basis states. In this work, we present a unified formalism to conduct universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-06 Hoi-Kwan Lau , Martin B. Plenio

Most quantum computing architectures to date natively support multi-valued logic, albeit being typically operated in a binary fashion. Multi-valued, or qudit, quantum processors have access to much richer forms of quantum entanglement,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Kevin Mato , Martin Ringbauer , Stefan Hillmich , Robert Wille

Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices have begun to exhibit early quantum advantages on classically intractable problems, spanning physics simulations to Gaussian boson sampling. Yet, realizing these benefits remains challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zhenxiao Fu , Fan Chen , Lei Jiang

Quantum simulation and computing traditionally has been based on two main paradigms, namely, digital and analog. In the digital paradigm, usually single and two-qubit gates (where qubit is an acronym for quantum bit) are employed as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Lucas Lamata

Reversible computation requires that intermediate data be explicitly undone rather than discarded. In quantum programming, this principle appears as uncomputation, usually treated as a technical cleanup mechanism. We instead present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Simone Faro , Francesco Pio Marino , Gabriele Messina