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Quantum computing is an emerging paradigm with the potential to offer significant computational advantage over conventional classical computing by exploiting quantum-mechanical principles such as entanglement and superposition. It is…

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Refinement calculus provides a structured framework for the progressive and modular development of programs, ensuring their correctness throughout the refinement process. This paper introduces a refinement calculus tailored for quantum…

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In this work, we explore the design of the checkpointing and restoration for quantum HPC that leverages dynamic circuit technology to enable restartable and resilient quantum execution. Rather than attempting to checkpoint quantum states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Qiang Guan , Qinglei Cao , Xiaoyi Lu , Siyuan Niu

Quantum computing promises to solve problems beyond the reach of classical computers, but today's quantum hardware is error-prone and much slower than classical hardware. Every quantum operation is costly, making it crucial to minimize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Lian Remme , Alexander Weinert , Andre Waschk , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

The nature of software re-engineering is to improve or transform existing software so it can be understood, controlled and reused as new software. Needs, the necessity of re-engineering software has greatly increased. The system software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-12-20 Phuc V. Nguyen

Quantum computing promises the ability to compute properties of quantum systems exponentially faster than classical computers. Quantum advantage is achieved when a practical problem is solved more efficiently on a quantum computer than on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 William A. Simon , Peter J. Love

Computational methods are the most effective tools we have besides scientific experiments to explore the properties of complex biological systems. Progress is slowing because digital silicon computers have reached their limits in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 Viv Kendon

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

In this work we introduce Qumin, a novel quantum programming language with a focus on providing an easy to use, minimalist, high-level, and easily extensible platform for quantum programming. Qumin's design concentrates on encompassing the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Alexander Singh , Konstantinos Giannakis , Theodore Andronikos

Quantum computation is a topic of significant recent interest, with practical advances coming from both research and industry. A major challenge in quantum programming is dealing with errors (quantum noise) during execution. Because quantum…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Shih-Han Hung , Kesha Hietala , Shaopeng Zhu , Mingsheng Ying , Michael Hicks , Xiaodi Wu

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

Quantum computing proposes a revolutionary paradigm that can radically transform numerous scientific and industrial application domains. To realize this promise, these new capabilities need software solutions that are able to effectively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Otso Kinanen , Andrés D. Muñoz-Moller , Vlad Stirbu , Tommi Mikkonen

Uncomputation is a feature in quantum programming that allows the programmer to discard a value without losing quantum information, and that allows the compiler to reuse resources. Whereas quantum information has to be treated linearly by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Kengo Hirata , Chris Heunen

In classical computation, a problem can be solved in multiple steps where calculated results of each step can be copied and used repeatedly. While in quantum computation, it is difficult to realize a similar multi-step computation process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-19 Hefeng Wang , Sixia Yu , Hua Xiang

The architecture of circuital quantum computers requires computing layers devoted to compiling high-level quantum algorithms into lower-level circuits of quantum gates. The general problem of quantum compiling is to approximate any unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Lorenzo Moro , Matteo G. A. Paris , Marcello Restelli , Enrico Prati

While significant progress has been made on the hardware side of quantum computing, support for high-level quantum programming abstractions remains underdeveloped compared to classical programming languages. In this article, we introduce…

Utilising quantum computing technology to enhance artificial intelligence systems is expected to improve training and inference times, increase robustness against noise and adversarial attacks, and reduce the number of parameters without…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Mykhailo Klymenko , Thong Hoang , Xiwei Xu , Zhenchang Xing , Muhammad Usman , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu

In this paper, we conduct a systematic literature review of (semi-) automated approaches to Quantum Software Engineering (QSE) and Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI). Prior work in the literature indicated that both Software Engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Nazanin Siavash , Armin Moin

This study considers implementations of error correction in a simulation language on a classical computer. Error correction will be necessarily in quantum computing and quantum information. We will give some examples of the implementations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-22 Peter Nyman

Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize multiple fields by solving complex problems that can not be solved in reasonable time with current classical computers. Nevertheless, the development of quantum computers is still in its…