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With the advent of cloud-based quantum computing, it has become vital to provide strong guarantees that computations delegated by clients to quantum service providers have been executed faithfully. Secure - blind and verifiable - Delegated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Theodoros Kapourniotis , Elham Kashefi , Dominik Leichtle , Luka Music , Harold Ollivier

Many security and software testing applications require checking whether certain properties of a program hold for any possible usage scenario. For instance, a tool for identifying software vulnerabilities may need to rule out the existence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Roberto Baldoni , Emilio Coppa , Daniele Cono D'Elia , Camil Demetrescu , Irene Finocchi

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with complex mathematical reasoning, where prose-based generation leads to unverified and arithmetically unsound solutions. Current prompting strategies like Chain of Thought still operate within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Sina Bagheri Nezhad , Yao Li , Ameeta Agrawal

In support of the growing interest in quantum computing experimentation, programmers need new tools to write quantum algorithms as program code. Compared to debugging classical programs, debugging quantum programs is difficult because…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Yipeng Huang , Margaret Martonosi

Quantum Intermediate Representation (QIR) is a Microsoft-developed, LLVM-based intermediate representation for quantum program compilers. QIR aims to provide a general solution for quantum program compilers independent of front-end…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Junjie Luo , Jianjun Zhao

Quantum computing promises to solve some important problems faster than conventional computations ever could. Currently available NISQ devices on which first practical applications are already executed demonstrate the potential -- with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Robert Wille , Stefan Hillmich , Lukas Burgholzer

Quantum computers have the potential to speed up certain computational tasks. A possibility this opens up within the field of machine learning is the use of quantum techniques that may be inefficient to simulate classically but could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Jamie Heredge , Charles Hill , Lloyd Hollenberg , Martin Sevior

Quantum simulation, the simulation of quantum processes on quantum computers, suggests a path forward for the efficient simulation of problems in condensed-matter physics, quantum chemistry, and materials science. While the majority of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Paul K. Faehrmann , Mark Steudtner , Richard Kueng , Maria Kieferova , Jens Eisert

In one-way quantum computation (1WQC) model, universal quantum computations are performed using measurements to designated qubits in a highly entangled state. The choices of bases for these measurements as well as the structure of the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Eesa Nikahd , Mahboobeh Houshmand , Morteza Saheb Zamani , Mehdi Sedighi

Quantum circuits are the preferred formalism for expressing quantum information processing tasks. Quantum circuit design automation methods mostly use a waterfall approach and consider that high level circuit descriptions are hardware…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-12 Alexandru Paler , Austin G. Fowler , Robert Wille

Quantum machine learning (QML) has emerged as an important area for Quantum applications, although useful QML applications would require many qubits. Therefore our paper is aimed at exploring the successful application of the Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Jae-Eun Park , Brian Quanz , Steve Wood , Heather Higgins , Ray Harishankar

Cuv\'ee is a program verification tool that reads SMT-LIB-like input files where terms may additionally contain weakest precondition operators over abstract programs. Cuv\'ee translates such inputs into first-order SMT-LIB by symbolically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Gidon Ernst

Quite often, verification tasks for distributed systems are accomplished via counter abstractions. Such abstractions can sometimes be justified via simulations and bisimulations. In this work, we supply logical foundations to this practice,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Silvio Ghilardi , Elena Pagani

It is becoming increasingly clear that, if a useful device for quantum computation will ever be built, it will be embodied by a classical computing machine with control over a truly quantum subsystem, this apparatus performing a mixture of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-11-07 S. Bettelli , L. Serafini , T. Calarco

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),…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Gushu Li , Li Zhou , Nengkun Yu , Yufei Ding , Mingsheng Ying , Yuan Xie

NISQ devices have several physical limitations and unavoidable noisy quantum operations, and only small circuits can be executed on a quantum machine to get reliable results. This leads to the quantum hardware under-utilization issue. Here,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Siyuan Niu , Aida Todri-Sanial

Quantum resource analysis is crucial for designing quantum circuits as well as assessing the viability of arbitrary (error-corrected) quantum computations. To this end, we introduce QUANTIFY, which is an open-source framework for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Oumarou Oumarou , Alexandru Paler , Robert Basmadjian

Quantum simulation, fundamental in quantum algorithm design, extends far beyond its foundational roots, powering diverse quantum computing applications. However, optimizing the compilation of quantum Hamiltonian simulation poses significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Xiuqi Cao , Junyu Zhou , Yuhao Liu , Yunong Shi , Gushu Li

We address the problem of analyzing asynchronous event-driven programs, in which concurrent agents communicate via unbounded message queues. The safety verification problem for such programs is undecidable. We present in this paper a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Peizun Liu , Thomas Wahl , Akash LaL

Intermediate-scale quantum devices are becoming more reliable, and may soon be harnessed to solve useful computational tasks. At the same time, common classical methods used to verify their computational output become intractable due to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Johannes Knörzer , Daniel Malz , J. Ignacio Cirac