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The progress in developing quantum hardware with functional quantum processors integrating tens of noisy qubits, together with the availability of near-term quantum algorithms has led to the release of the first quantum computers. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Medina Bandic , Sebastian Feld , Carmen G. Almudever

In this paper, we present the Quantum Information Software Developer Kit - Qiskit, for teaching quantum computing to undergraduate students, with basic knowledge of quantum mechanics postulates. We focus on presenting the construction of…

Quantum computing is a promising approach of computation that is based on equations from Quantum Mechanics. A simulator for quantum algorithms must be capable of performing heavy mathematical matrix transforms. The design of the simulator…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-02-25 A. S. Tolba , M. Z. Rashad , M. A. El-Dosuky

Different platforms for quantum computation are currently being developed with a steadily increasing number of physical qubits. To make today's devices practical for quantum software engineers, novel programming tools with maximal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Michael Cubeddu , Will Finigan , Thomas Lively , Johannes Flick , Prineha Narang

The next generation of distributed quantum processors combines single-location quantum computing and quantum networking techniques to permit large entangled qubit groups to be established through remote processors, and quantum algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Le Chang , Saitej Yavvari , Rance Cleaveland , Samik Basu , Runzhou Tao , Liyi Li

Languages, compilers, and computer-aided design tools will be essential for scalable quantum computing, which promises an exponential leap in our ability to execute complex tasks. LIQUi|> is a modular software architecture designed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Dave Wecker , Krysta M. Svore

In recent years, Quantum Computing (QC) has progressed to the point where small working prototypes are available for use. Termed Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers, these prototypes are too small for large benchmarks or even…

Quantum computing is getting increasing interest from both academia and industry, and the quantum software landscape has been growing rapidly. The quantum software stack comprises quantum programs, implementing algorithms, and platforms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Matteo Paltenghi , Michael Pradel

We present an imperative quantum programming language LanQ which was designed to support combination of quantum and classical programming and basic process operations - process creation and interprocess communication. The language can thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Hynek Mlnarik

Quantum computation constitutes a rapidly expanding subfield of computer science. Development quantum algorithms is facilitated by the availability of efficient quantum programming languages, and a plethora of approaches has been already…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Arnab Chakraborty

We present a new quantum programming language called "Quala" that enables true full-stack programming of quantum hardware. Quala allows seamless integration of abstraction layers such as the digital circuit layer and the analog control…

We present IQu, namely a quantum programming language that extends Reynold's Idealized Algol, the paradigmatic core of Algol-like languages. IQu combines imperative programming with high-order features, mediated by a simple type theory. IQu…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Luca Paolini , Luca Roversi , Margherita Zorzi

This paper presents the definition and implementation of a quantum computer architecture to enable creating a new computational device - a quantum computer as an accelerator. In this paper, we present explicitly the idea of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 K. Bertels , A. Sarkar , A. A. Mouedenne , T. Hubregtsen , A. Yadav , A. Krol , I. Ashraf

We introduce the language QML, a functional language for quantum computations on finite types. Its design is guided by its categorical semantics: QML programs are interpreted by morphisms in the category FQC of finite quantum computations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 Thorsten Altenkirch , Jonathan Grattage

By leveraging quantum-mechanical properties like superposition, entanglement, and interference, quantum computing (QC) offers promising solutions for problems that classical computing has not been able to solve efficiently, such as drug…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Hyeok Kim , Mingyoung J. Jeng , Kaitlin N. Smith

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

Quantum gates are the fundamental instructions of digital quantum computers. Current programming languages, systems, and software development toolkits identify these operational gates by their titles, which requires a shared understanding…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Ed Younis

It is imperative to compile quantum circuits for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices because of the limited connectivity of physical qubits and the high error rates of gate operations. One of the most critical steps in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Soshun Naito , Yoshihiko Hasegawa , Yoshiki Matsuda , Shu Tanaka

This paper presents the definition and implementation of a quantum computer architecture to enable creating a new computational device - a quantum computer as an accelerator In this paper, we present explicitly the idea of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 K. Bertels , A. Sarkar , A. Krol , R. Budhrani , J. Samadi , E. Geoffroy , J. Matos , R. Abreu , G. Gielen , I. Ashraf

This paper presents a tool that simplifies quantum software development by unifying circuit design, code generation, and execution within a single cross-platform environment that supports iterative development. Implemented as open source,…