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Recent developments in quantum hardware indicate that systems featuring more than 50 physical qubits are within reach. At this scale, classical simulation will no longer be feasible and there is a possibility that such quantum devices may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 Mathias Soeken , Thomas Häner , Martin Roetteler

The rapid progress of computer technology has been accompanied by a corresponding evolution of software development, from hardwired components and binary machine code to high level programming languages, which allowed to master the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bernhard Oemer

Building a quantum computer that surpasses the computational power of its classical counterpart is a great engineering challenge. Quantum software optimizations can provide an accelerated pathway to the first generation of quantum computing…

Quantum algorithms for computational linear algebra promise up to exponential speedups for applications such as simulation and regression, making them prime candidates for hardware realization. But these algorithms execute in a model that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Charles Yuan

This paper introduces ONDA, a quantum programming language designed to significantly simplify quantum programming by providing multiple abstraction layers similar to those found in classical computing. Unlike traditional quantum programming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Francesco Junior De Gregorio

Most existing quantum programming languages are based on the quantum circuit model of computation, as higher-level abstractions are particularly challenging to implement - especially ones relating to quantum control flow. The Qunity…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mikhail Mints , Finn Voichick , Leonidas Lampropoulos , Robert Rand

Recent experimental advances have demonstrated technologies capable of supporting scalable quantum computation. A critical next step is how to put those technologies together into a scalable, fault-tolerant system that is also feasible. We…

Neutral Atom Quantum Computing (NAQC) emerges as a promising hardware platform primarily due to its long coherence times and scalability. Additionally, NAQC offers computational advantages encompassing potential long-range connectivity,…

We introduce Qunity, a new quantum programming language designed to treat quantum computing as a natural generalization of classical computing. Qunity presents a unified syntax where familiar programming constructs can have both quantum and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Finn Voichick , Liyi Li , Robert Rand , Michael Hicks

Quantum computing, albeit readily available as hardware or emulated on the cloud, is still far from being available in general regarding complex programming paradigms and learning curves. This vision paper introduces $Classi|Q\rangle$, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Matteo Esposito , Maryam Tavassoli Sabzevari , Boshuai Ye , Davide Falessi , Arif Ali Khan , Davide Taibi

Open source software is becoming crucial in the design and testing of quantum algorithms. Many of the tools are backed by major commercial vendors with the goal to make it easier to develop quantum software: this mirrors how well-funded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 Mark Fingerhuth , Tomáš Babej , Peter Wittek

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

Compiling quantum programs for fault-tolerant execution requires transforming high-level operations through multiple abstraction layers: from logical gates to error-corrected encodings to hardware-native instructions. A key challenge is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Andres Paz , Dan Grossman

Programming for today's quantum computers is making significant strides toward modern workflows compatible with high performance computing (HPC), but fundamental challenges still remain in the integration of these vastly different…

Quantum computations operate in the quantum world. For their results to be useful in any way, there is an intrinsic necessity of cooperation and communication controlled by the classical world. As a consequence, full formal descriptions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Jorrand , Marie Lalire

We develop a sound and complete equational theory for the functional quantum programming language QML. The soundness and completeness of the theory are with respect to the previously-developed denotational semantics of QML. The completeness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 Thorsten Altenkirch , Jonathan Grattage , Juliana K. Vizzotto , Amr Sabry

We present the quantum programming language cQPL which is an extended version of QPL [P. Selinger, Math. Struct. in Comp. Sci. 14(4):527-586, 2004]. It is capable of quantum communication and it can be used to formulate all possible quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Mauerer

Heterogeneous high-performance computing (HPC) systems offer novel architectures which accelerate specific workloads through judicious use of specialized coprocessors. A promising architectural approach for future scientific computations is…

We present a basic high-level structures used for developing quantum programming languages. The presented structures are commonly used in many existing quantum programming languages and we use quantum pseudo-code based on QCL quantum…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-10-10 P. Gawron , J. Klamka , J. A. Miszczak , R. Winiarczyk

Noisy gate-model quantum processing units (QPUs) are currently available from vendors over the cloud, and digital quantum programming approaches exist to run low-depth circuits on physical hardware. These digital representations are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-28 Thien Nguyen , Alexander McCaskey