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We introduce ProjectQ, an open source software effort for quantum computing. The first release features a compiler framework capable of targeting various types of hardware, a high-performance simulator with emulation capabilities, and…

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Quantum computers promise to transform our notions of computation by offering a completely new paradigm. To achieve scalable quantum computation, optimizing compilers and a corresponding software design flow will be essential. We present a…

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Quantum algorithms are sequences of abstract operations, performed on non-existent computers. They are in obvious need of categorical semantics. We present some steps in this direction, following earlier contributions of Abramsky, Coecke…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Dusko Pavlovic

Quantum computing hardware is advancing at a rapid pace, yet the lack of high-level programming abstractions remains a serious bottleneck in the development of new applications. Widely used frameworks still rely on gate-level circuit…

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Creating quantum algorithms is a difficult task, especially for computer scientist not used to quantum computing. But quantum algorithms often use similar elements. Thus, these elements provide proven solutions to recurring problems, i.e. a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-10 Frank Leymann

Quantum lambda calculus has been studied mainly as an idealized programming language -- the evaluation essentially corresponds to a deterministic abstract machine. Very little work has been done to develop a rewriting theory for quantum…

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We introduce isQ, a new software stack for quantum programming in an imperative programming language, also named isQ. The aim of isQ is to make the programmers write quantum programs as conveniently as possible. In particular: 1) The isQ…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Jingzhe Guo , Huazhe Lou , Riling Li , Wang Fang , Junyi Liu , Peixun Long , Shenggang Ying , Mingsheng Ying

Quipper is a practical programming language for describing families of quantum circuits. In this paper, we formalize a small, but useful fragment of Quipper called Proto-Quipper-M. Unlike its parent Quipper, this language is type-safe and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Francisco Rios , Peter Selinger

The quantum assembly language (QASM) is a popular intermediate representation used in many quantum compilation and simulation tools to describe quantum circuits. Currently, multiple different dialects of QASM are used in different quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 N. Khammassi , G. G. Guerreschi , I. Ashraf , J. W. Hogaboam , C. G. Almudever , K. Bertels

Refactoring is a crucial technique for improving the efficiency and maintainability of software by restructuring its internal design while preserving its external behavior. While classical programs have benefited from various refactoring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jianjun Zhao

Many quantum programs require circuits for addition, subtraction and logical operations. These circuits may be packaged within routines known as oracles. However, oracles can be tedious to code with current frameworks. To solve this problem…

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Quantum programs today are written at a low level of abstraction - quantum circuits akin to assembly languages - and the unitary parts of even advanced quantum programming languages essentially function as circuit description languages.…

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Polylogarithmic time delineates a relevant notion of feasibility on several classical computational models such as Boolean circuits or parallel random access machines. As far as the quantum paradigm is concerned, this notion yields the…

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A few conventions for thinking about and writing quantum pseudocode are proposed. The conventions can be used for presenting any quantum algorithm down to the lowest level and are consistent with a quantum random access machine (QRAM) model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 E. Knill

CoqQ is a framework for reasoning about quantum programs in the Coq proof assistant. Its main components are: a deeply embedded quantum programming language, in which classic quantum algorithms are easily expressed, and an expressive…

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Computation is an input-output process, where a program encoding a problem to be solved is inserted into a machine that outputs a solution. Quantum computation conventionally relies on classical, external control outside the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Florian Meier , Marcus Huber , Paul Erker , Jake Xuereb

We introduce a novel quantum programming language featuring higher-order programs and quantum controlflow which ensures that all qubit transformations are unitary. Our language boasts a type system guaranteeingboth unitarity and…

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Large language model (LLM)-based tools such as ChatGPT seem useful for classical programming assignments. The more specialized the field, the more likely they lack reliability because of the lack of data to train them. In the case of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yaiza Aragonés-Soria , Manuel Oriol

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