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Quantum Internetworking is a recent field that promises numerous interesting applications, many of which require the distribution of entanglement between arbitrary pairs of users. This work deals with the problem of scheduling in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Paolo Fittipaldi , Anastasios Giovanidis , Frédéric Grosshans

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

Executing quantum circuits on currently available quantum computers requires compiling them to a representation that conforms to all restrictions imposed by the targeted architecture. Due to the limited connectivity of the devices' physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Lukas Burgholzer , Sarah Schneider , Robert Wille

We present a method for optimizing quantum circuits architecture. The method is based on the notion of "quantum comb", which describes a circuit board in which one can insert variable subcircuits. The method allows one to efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-08 Giulio Chiribella , Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano , Paolo Perinotti

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Alejandro Díaz-Caro , Emmanuel Hainry , Romain Péchoux , Mário Silva

Most quantum computing architectures can be realized as two-dimensional lattices of qubits that interact with each other. We take transmon qubits and transmission line resonators as promising candidates for qubits and couplers; we use them…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Martin Wosnitzka , Fabio L. Pedrocchi , David P. DiVincenzo

Quantum computing can enable a variety of breakthroughs in research and industry in the future. Although some quantum algorithms already exist that show a theoretical speedup compared to the best known classical algorithms, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Marie Salm , Johanna Barzen , Uwe Breitenbücher , Frank Leymann , Benjamin Weder , Karoline Wild

"Qubit routing" refers to the task of modifying quantum circuits so that they satisfy the connectivity constraints of a target quantum computer. This involves inserting SWAP gates into the circuit so that the logical gates only ever occur…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-03 Matteo G. Pozzi , Steven J. Herbert , Akash Sengupta , Robert D. Mullins

Quantum networks serve as the means to transmit information, encoded in quantum bits or qubits, between quantum processors that are physically separated. Given the instability of qubits, the design of such networks is challenging,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Tianjie Hu , Jindi Wu , Qun Li

In this paper we study a combinatorial reconfiguration problem that involves finding an optimal sequence of swaps to move an initial configuration of tokens that are placed on the vertices of a graph to a final desired one. This problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ishan Bansal , Oktay Günlük , Richard Shapley

A quantum network promises to enable long distance quantum communication, and assemble small quantum devices into a large quantum computing cluster. Each network node can thereby be seen as a small few qubit quantum computer. Qubits can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Eddie Schoute , Laura Mancinska , Tanvirul Islam , Iordanis Kerenidis , Stephanie Wehner

Quantum computing is a growing field with significant potential applications. Learning how to code quantum programs means understanding how qubits work and learning to use quantum gates. This is analogous to creating classical algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Tamás Varga , Yaiza Aragonés-Soria , Manuel Oriol

This paper addresses the problem of qubit routing in first-generation and other near-term quantum computers. In particular, it is asserted that the qubit routing problem can be formulated as a reinforcement learning (RL) problem, and that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Steven Herbert , Akash Sengupta

Quantum computing is a new way of data processing based on the concept of quantum mechanics. Quantum circuit design is a process of converting a quantum gate to a series of basic gates and is divided into two general categories based on the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Moein Sarvaghad-Moghaddam

Quantum simulations are designed to model quantum systems, and many compilation frameworks have been developed for executing such simulations on quantum computers. Most compilers leverage the capabilities of digital and analog quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Liyi Li , Federico Zahariev , Chandeepa Dissanayake , Jae Swanepoel , Amr Sabry , Mark S. Gordon

Executing quantum algorithms over distributed quantum systems requires quantum circuits to be divided into sub-circuits which communicate via entanglement-based teleportation. Naively mapping circuits to qubits over multiple quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Felix Burt , Kuan-Cheng Chen , Kin K. Leung

We consider a hybrid quantum system consisting of a qubit system continuously evolving according to its fixed own Hamiltonian and a quantum computer. The qubit system couples to a quantum computer through a fixed interaction Hamiltonian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Ryosuke Sakai , Akihito Soeda , Mio Murao

Quantum language models have shown competitive performance on sequential tasks, yet whether trained quantum circuits exploit genuinely quantum resources -- or merely embed classical computation in quantum hardware -- remains unknown. Prior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Nathan Roll

We propose a theory of characterizing quantum circuits with qubit functional configurations. Any quantum circuit can be decomposed into alternating sequences of 1-qubit unitary gates and CNOT gates. Each CNOT sequence prepares the current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Zixuan Hu , Sabre Kais

As quantum computers become real, it is high time we come up with effective techniques that help programmers write correct quantum programs. Inspired by Hoare Type Theory in classical computing, we propose Quantum Hoare Type Theory (QHTT),…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Kartik Singhal