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qPCF is a paradigmatic quantum programming language that ex- tends PCF with quantum circuits and a quantum co-processor. Quantum circuits are treated as classical data that can be duplicated and manipulated in flexible ways by means of a…

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Reversible computing is a computational paradigm in which computations are deterministic in both the forward and backward direction, so that programs have well-defined forward and backward semantics. We investigate the formal semantics of…

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There exist several graphical languages for quantum information processing, like quantum circuits, ZX-Calculus, ZW-Calculus, etc. Each of these languages forms a dagger-symmetric monoidal category (dagger-SMC) and comes with an…

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