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Quantum computers are becoming more mainstream. As more programmers are starting to look at writing quantum programs, they face an inevitable task of debugging their code. How should the programs for quantum computers be debugged? In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Andriy Miranskyy , Lei Zhang , Javad Doliskani

Quantum programs are often shared as OpenQASM 3 circuits, but tests are still written in host languages such as Python with Qiskit. We present QUTest, a native framework in which both programs and tests are standard .qasm files. Tests…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 José Campos

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

This note reviews prospects for quantum computing. It argues that gates need to be tested for a wide range of probability amplitudes.

General Physics · Physics 2009-03-02 Subhash Kak

We give a new theoretical solution to a leading-edge experimental challenge, namely to the verification of quantum computations in the regime of high computational complexity. Our results are given in the language of quantum interactive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Anne Broadbent

As researchers, we already understand how to make testing more effective and efficient at finding bugs. However, as fuzzing (i.e., automated testing) becomes more widely adopted in practice, practitioners are asking: Which assurances does a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Marcel Böhme

It is shown that a quantum computer can test the convexity and monotonicity of a given function exponentially more efficiently than a classical computer. This establishes another prominent example that showcases the potential of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Nhat A. Nghiem

Quantum circuit simulation is paramount to the verification and optimization of quantum algorithms, and considerable research efforts have been made towards efficient simulators. While circuits often contain high-level gates such as oracles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Adam Husted Kjelstrøm , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Jaco van de Pol

With the advent of delegated quantum computing as a service, verifying quantum computations is becoming a question of great importance. Existing information theoretically Secure Delegated Quantum Computing (SDQC) protocols require the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Elham Kashefi , Dominik Leichtle , Luka Music , Harold Ollivier

Recently, quantum classifiers have been found to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, in which quantum classifiers are deceived by imperceptible noises, leading to misclassification. In this paper, we propose the first theoretical study…

Quantum scrambling is the dispersal of local information into many-body quantum entanglements and correlations distributed throughout the entire system. This concept underlies the dynamics of thermalization in closed quantum systems, and…

Quantum oracles play key roles in the studies of quantum computation and quantum information. But implementing quantum oracles efficiently with universal quantum gates is a hard work. Motivated by genetic programming, this paper proposes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shengchao Ding , Zhi Jin , Qing Yang

The goal in function property testing is to determine whether a black-box Boolean function has a certain property or is epsilon-far from having that property. The performance of the algorithm is judged by how many calls need to be made to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Mark Hillery , Erika Andersson

Quantum computing systems need to be benchmarked in terms of practical tasks they would be expected to do. Here, we propose 3 "application-motivated" circuit classes for benchmarking: deep (relevant for state preparation in the variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Daniel Mills , Seyon Sivarajah , Travis L. Scholten , Ross Duncan

If a quantum computer is stabilized by fault-tolerant quantum error correction (QEC), then most of its resources (qubits and operations) are dedicated to the extraction of error information. Analysis of this process leads to a set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew M. Steane

A proof of quantumness is a method for provably demonstrating (to a classical verifier) that a quantum device can perform computational tasks that a classical device with comparable resources cannot. Providing a proof of quantumness is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Zvika Brakerski , Venkata Koppula , Umesh Vazirani , Thomas Vidick

Modern programming relies on our ability to treat preprogrammed functions as black boxes - we can invoke them as subroutines without knowing their physical implementation. Here we show it is generally impossible to execute an unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Jayne Thompson , Mile Gu , Kavan Modi , Vlatko Vedral

One-time programs (Goldwasser, Kalai and Rothblum, CRYPTO 2008) are functions that can be run on any single input of a user's choice, but not on a second input. Classically, they are unachievable without trusted hardware, but the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Aparna Gupte , Jiahui Liu , Justin Raizes , Bhaskar Roberts , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Quantum systems are inherently open and susceptible to environmental noise, which can have both detrimental and beneficial effects on their dynamics. This phenomenon has been observed in bio-molecular systems, where noise enables novel…

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