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Quantum Hamiltonian simulation is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing and forms the basis for many quantum algorithms. Benchmarking them is an important gauge of progress in quantum computing technology. We present a…

The model-checking problem for hybrid systems is a well known challenge in the scientific community. Most of the existing approaches and tools are limited to safety properties only, or operates by transforming the hybrid system to be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Davide Bresolin

The implementation of digital filters in processors based on fixed-point arithmetic can lead to problems related to the finite word-length. In particular, the processing of signals in such filters can produce overflows and unwanted noise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-07-24 Renato B. Abreu , Lucas Cordeiro , Eddie B. L. Filho

We consider the problem of bounded model checking (BMC) for linear temporal logic (LTL). We present several efficient encodings that have size linear in the bound. Furthermore, we show how the encodings can be extended to LTL with past…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Armin Biere , Keijo Heljanko , Tommi Junttila , Timo Latvala , Viktor Schuppan

We introduce a model-checking tool intended specially for the analysis of quantum information protocols. The tool incorporates an efficient representation of a certain class of quantum circuits, namely those expressible in the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-21 Simon Gay , Rajagopal Nagarajan , Nikolaos Papanikolaou

Adversarial noise attacks present a significant threat to quantum machine learning (QML) models, similar to their classical counterparts. This is especially true in the current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum era, where noise is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Yanling Lin , Ji Guan , Wang Fang , Mingsheng Ying , Zhaofeng Su

Computer-based systems have been used to solve several domain problems, such as industrial, military, education, and wearable. Those systems need high-quality software to guarantee security and safety. We advocate that Bounded Model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Thales Silva , Carmina Porto , Erickson Alves , Lucas Cordeiro , Herbert Rocha

In Bounded Model Checking both the system model and the checked property are translated into a Boolean formula to be analyzed by a SAT-solver. We introduce a new encoding technique which is particularly optimized for managing quantitative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Matteo Pradella , Angelo Morzenti , Pierluigi San Pietro

We present QCommute, a software tool implemented in C++ for symbolic computation of nested commutators between a Hamiltonian and local observables in quantum many-body spin-1/2 systems on one-, two-, and three-dimensional hypercubic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-09 Oleg Lychkovskiy , Viacheslav Khrushchev , Ilya Shirokov

In the last three decades, memory safety issues in system programming languages such as C or C++ have been one of the significant sources of security vulnerabilities. However, there exist only a few attempts with limited success to cope…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Felipe R. Monteiro , Mikhail R. Gadelha , Lucas C. Cordeiro

In order to characterize and benchmark computational hardware, software, and algorithms, it is essential to have many problem instances on-hand. This is no less true for quantum computation, where a large collection of real-world problem…

Optimal prompt selection is crucial for maximizing large language model (LLM) performance on downstream tasks, especially in black-box settings where models are only accessible via APIs. Black-box prompt selection is challenging due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Lennart Schneider , Martin Wistuba , Aaron Klein , Jacek Golebiowski , Giovanni Zappella , Felice Antonio Merra

Bounded Model Checking (BMC) is a widely used software verification technique. Despite its successes, the technique has several limiting factors, from state-space explosion to lack of completeness. Over the years, interval analysis has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Rafael Sá Menezes , Edoardo Manino , Fedor Shmarov , Mohannad Aldughaim , Rosiane de Freitas , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Non-deterministic planning aims to find a policy that achieves a given objective in an environment where actions have uncertain effects, and the agent - potentially - only observes parts of the current state. Hyperproperties are properties…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

We introduce a novel logic for the specification of context-free hyperproperties, which capture, e.g., the flow of information in security-critical recursive systems. Intuitively, the logic extends visibly pushdown automata by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Sarah Winter , Martin Zimmermann

A new logic for verification of security policies is proposed. The logic, HyperLTL, extends linear-time temporal logic (LTL) with connectives for explicit and simultaneous quantification over multiple execution paths, thereby enabling…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Masoud Koleini , Michael R. Clarkson , Kristopher K. Micinski

This paper presents Efficient SMT-Based Context-Bounded Model Checker (ESBMC) v7.6, an extended version based on previous work on ESBMC v7.3 by K. Song et al. The v7.3 introduced a new Clang-based C++ front-end to address the challenges…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xianzhiyu Li , Kunjian Song , Mikhail R. Gadelha , Franz Brauße , Rafael S. Menezes , Konstantin Korovin , Lucas C. Cordeiro

QNNVerifier is the first open-source tool for verifying implementations of neural networks that takes into account the finite word-length (i.e. quantization) of their operands. The novel support for quantization is achieved by employing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Xidan Song , Edoardo Manino , Luiz Sena , Erickson Alves , Eddie de Lima Filho , Iury Bessa , Mikel Lujan , Lucas Cordeiro

Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple computation paths in a system and are commonly used to, e.g., define information-flow policies. In this paper, we study a novel class of hyperproperties that allow reasoning about…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

This whitepaper presents NWQWorkflow, an end-to-end workflow for quantum application development, compilation, error correction, benchmarking, numerical simulation, control, and execution on a prototype superconducting testbed. NWQWorkflow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Ang Li