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Scientific software is, by its very nature, complex. It is mathematical and highly optimized which makes it prone to subtle bugs not as easily detected by traditional testing. We outline how symbolic execution can be used to write tests…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Alexander C. Wilton

Quantum computers are becoming a reality and numerous quantum computing applications with a near-term perspective (e.g., for finance, chemistry, machine learning, and optimization) and with a long-term perspective (e.g., for cryptography or…

One of the main challenges in the field of quantum simulation and computation is to identify ways to certify the correct functioning of a device when a classical efficient simulation is not available. Important cases are situations in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 D. Hangleiter , M. Kliesch , M. Schwarz , J. Eisert

Powerful hardware services and software libraries are vital tools for quickly and affordably designing, testing, and executing quantum algorithms. A robust large-scale study of how the performance of these platforms scales with the number…

As quantum computers of non-trivial size become available in the near future, it is imperative to develop tools to emulate small quantum computers. This allows for validation and debugging of algorithms as well as exploring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Thomas Häner , Damian S. Steiger , Mikhail Smelyanskiy , Matthias Troyer

Verification of quantum circuits is essential for guaranteeing correctness of quantum algorithms and/or quantum descriptions across various levels of abstraction. In this work, we show that there are promising ways to check the correctness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Lukas Burgholzer , Richard Kueng , Robert Wille

We explore the possibility of accelerating the formal verification of classical programs with a quantum computer. A common source of security flaws stems from the existence of common programming errors like use after free, null-pointer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Sebastian Issel , Kilian Tscharke , Pascal Debus

Recent advances in quantum computers and simulators are steadily leading us towards full-scale quantum computing devices. Due to the fact that debugging is necessary to create any computing device, quantum tomography (QT) is a critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 B. I. Bantysh , A. Yu. Chernyavskiy , Yu. I. Bogdanov

Quantum computing promises exponential speed-ups for important simulation and optimization problems. It also poses new CAD problems that are similar to, but more challenging, than the related problems in classical (non-quantum) CAD, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 George F. Viamontes , Igor L. Markov , John P. Hayes

We marry two powerful ideas: deep representation learning for visual recognition and language understanding, and symbolic program execution for reasoning. Our neural-symbolic visual question answering (NS-VQA) system first recovers a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Kexin Yi , Jiajun Wu , Chuang Gan , Antonio Torralba , Pushmeet Kohli , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

In this perspective we discuss verification of quantum devices in the context of specific examples, formulated as proposed experiments. Our first example is verification of analog quantum simulators as Hamiltonian learning, where the input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-12 Jose Carrasco , Andreas Elben , Christian Kokail , Barbara Kraus , Peter Zoller

With the previous notions of bisimulation presented in literature, to check if two quantum processes are bisimilar, we have to instantiate the free quantum variables of them with arbitrary quantum states, and verify the bisimilarity of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-02-22 Yuan Feng , Yuxin Deng , Mingsheng Ying

To employ a quantum device, the performance of the quantum gates in the device needs to be evaluated first. Since the dimensionality of a quantum gate grows exponentially with the number of qubits, evaluating the performance of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Maolin Luo , Xiaoqian Zhang , Xiaoqi Zhou

We propose an efficient scheme for verifying quantum computations in the `high complexity' regime i.e. beyond the remit of classical computers. Previously proposed schemes remarkably provide confidence against arbitrarily malicious…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Richard Jozsa , Sergii Strelchuk

Equivalence checking of quantum circuits is a central verification task in quantum computing, ensuring the correctness of circuit optimizations, hardware mappings, and compilation pipelines. Among the primary symbolic methods for this…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Wei-Jia Huang , Christophe Chareton , Yu-Fang Chen , Kai-Min Chung , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Alfons Laarman , Jingyi Mei

Quantum computing, with its vast potential, is fundamentally shaped by the intricacies of quantum mechanics, which both empower and constrain its capabilities. The development of a universal, robust quantum programming language has emerged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Viktorija Bezganovic , Marco Lewis , Sadegh Soudjani , Paolo Zuliani

To address the urgent need in the NISQ era for high-performance, scalable quantum compilers and to advance the integration of classical and quantum computing, we present QLLVM, an advanced Quantum-Classical co-compilation framework built on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Yu Zhu , Qiming Du , Yuqiong Jin , Woji He , Hang Lian , Xin Zhou , Jinchen Xu , Zheng Shan

We present the Quantum Virtual Machine (QVM), an end-to-end generic system for scalable execution of large quantum circuits with high fidelity on noisy and small quantum processors (QPUs) by leveraging gate virtualization. QVM exposes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Nathaniel Tornow , Emmanouil Giortamis , Pramod Bhatotia

Classical program analysis techniques, such as abstract interpretation and symbolic execution, are essential for ensuring software correctness, optimizing performance, and enabling compiler optimizations. However, these techniques face…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yicheng Guang , Pietro Zanotta , Kai Zhou , Yueqi Chen , Ramin Ayanzadeh

Quantum volume (QV) has become the de-facto standard benchmark to quantify the capability of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. While QV values are often reported by NISQ providers for their systems, we perform our own series…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Elijah Pelofske , Andreas Bärtschi , Stephan Eidenbenz