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The rapid advancement of quantum computing has led to the development of various quantum libraries, empowering compilation, simulation, and hardware backend interfaces. However, ensuring the correctness of these libraries remains a…

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In this paper, we propose Proq, a runtime assertion scheme for testing and debugging quantum programs on a quantum computer. The predicates in Proq are represented by projections (or equivalently, closed subspaces of the state space),…

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Bug reports provide critical insights into software quality, yet existing datasets often suffer from limited scope, outdated content, or insufficient metadata for machine learning. To address these limitations, we present GitBugs-a…

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Quantum field theory (QFT) simulations are a potentially important application for noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) computers. The ability of a quantum computer to emulate a QFT, therefore, constitutes a natural application-centric…

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Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Santaro Kikuura , Ryoya Igata , Yuta Shingu , Shohei Watabe

Qiskit is an open-source quantum computing framework that allows users to design, simulate, and run quantum circuits on real quantum hardware. We explore post-training techniques for LLMs to assist in writing Qiskit code. We introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Nicolas Dupuis , Adarsh Tiwari , Youssef Mroueh , David Kremer , Ismael Faro , Juan Cruz-Benito

Noisy, intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computing devices offer opportunities to test the principles of quantum computing but are prone to errors arising from various sources of noise. Fluctuations in the noise itself lead to unstable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Samudra Dasgupta , Travis S. Humble

Quantum programs exhibit inherent non-deterministic behavior, which poses more significant challenges for error discovery compared to classical programs. While several testing methods have been proposed for quantum programs, they often…

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In the past decade, research on test-suite-based automatic program repair has grown significantly. Each year, new approaches and implementations are featured in major software engineering venues. However, most of those approaches are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Thomas Durieux , Fernanda Madeiral , Matias Martinez , Rui Abreu

Identify, Transform, Benchmark, Show Quantum Advantage (ITBQ): Evaluating use cases for quantum computers. We introduce a four-step framework for assessing quantum computing applications -- from identifying relevant industry problems to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Michael Marthaler , Peter Pinski , Vladimir Rybkin , Iris Schwenk , Pascal Stadler , Marina Walt

In the current NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) era, simulating and verifying noisy quantum circuits is crucial but faces challenges such as quantum state explosion and complex noise representations, constraining simulation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Mingyu Huang , Ji Guan , Wang Fang , Mingsheng Ying

Static bug finders have been widely-adopted by developers to find bugs in real world software projects. They leverage predefined heuristic static analysis rules to scan source code or binary code of a software project, and report violations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Junjie Wang , Yuchao Huang , Song Wang , Qing Wang

Existing protocols for benchmarking current quantum co-processors fail to meet the usual standards for assessing the performance of High-Performance-Computing platforms. After a synthetic review of these protocols -- whether at the gate,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Simon Martiel , Thomas Ayral , Cyril Allouche

Quantum computing systems need to be benchmarked in terms of practical tasks they would be expected to do. Here, we propose 3 "application-motivated" circuit classes for benchmarking: deep (relevant for state preparation in the variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Daniel Mills , Seyon Sivarajah , Travis L. Scholten , Ross Duncan

Quantum programs must be reliable to ensure trustworthy results, yet debugging them is notoriously challenging due to quantum-specific faults like gate misimplementations and hardware noise, as well as their inherently probabilistic nature.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Noah H. Oldfield , Christoph Laaber , Shaukat Ali

Demonstrating quantum advantage using conventional quantum algorithms remains challenging on current noisy gate-based quantum computers. Automated quantum circuit synthesis via quantum machine learning has emerged as a promising solution,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Shubing Xie , Aritra Sarkar , Sebastian Feld

Evaluating quantum algorithms at utility-scale - involving more than 100 qubits - is a key step toward advancing real-world applications of quantum computing. In this study, we benchmark seven state-of-the-art quantum emulators employing…

Reliable resource estimation and benchmarking of quantum algorithms is a critical component of the development cycle of viable quantum applications for quantum computers of all sizes. Determining critical resource bottlenecks in algorithms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 Alexandru Paler , Daniel Herr , Simon J. Devitt

We introduce a new paradigm for analysing and finding bugs in quantum circuits. In our approach, the problem is given by a triple $\{P\}\,C\,\{Q\}$ and the question is whether, given a set $P$ of quantum states on the input of a circuit…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Yu-Fang Chen , Kai-Min Chung , Ondřej Lengál , Jyun-Ao Lin , Wei-Lun Tsai , Di-De Yen

Quantum computing is rapidly advancing, but quantum software development faces significant challenges, including a steep learning curve, high hardware error rates, and a lack of mature engineering practices. This study conducts a…

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