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Quantum computers are reaching a level where interactions between classical and quantum computations can happen in real-time. This marks the advent of a new, broader class of quantum circuits: dynamic quantum circuits. They offer a broader…

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Quantum computers are expected to offer substantial speedups over their classical counterparts and to solve problems that are intractable for classical computers. Beyond such practical significance, the concept of quantum computation opens…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 Stefanie Barz , Joseph F. Fitzsimons , Elham Kashefi , Philip Walther

As we approach the era of quantum advantage, when quantum computers (QCs) can outperform any classical computer on particular tasks, there remains the difficult challenge of how to validate their performance. While algorithmic success can…

We introduce a single-number metric, quantum volume, that can be measured using a concrete protocol on near-term quantum computers of modest size ($n\lesssim 50$), and measure it on several state-of-the-art transmon devices, finding values…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Andrew W. Cross , Lev S. Bishop , Sarah Sheldon , Paul D. Nation , Jay M. Gambetta

Quantum machine learning integrates the strengths of quantum computing and machine learning, enabling models to learn complex features using fewer parameters than their classical counterparts. Due to the increasing complexity of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Emma Andrews , Prabhat Mishra

Quantum computing promises polynomial and exponential speedups in many domains, such as unstructured search and prime number factoring. However, quantum programs yield probabilistic outputs from exponentially growing distributions and are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Noah H. Oldfield , Christoph Laaber , Tao Yue , Shaukat Ali

The efficient certification of classically intractable quantum devices has been a central research question for some time. However, to observe a "quantum advantage", it is believed that one does not need to build a large scale universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Daniel Mills , Anna Pappa , Theodoros Kapourniotis , Elham Kashefi

While quantum speed-up in solving certain decision problems by a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer has been promised, a timely research interest includes how far one can reduce the resource requirement to demonstrate a provable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-01 Jacob Miller , Stephen Sanders , Akimasa Miyake

Errors in quantum programs are challenging to track down due to the uncertainty of quantum programs. Testing is, therefore, an indispensable method for assuring the quality of quantum software. Existing testing methods focus only on testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Peixun Long , Jianjun Zhao

Verification of quantum circuits is essential for guaranteeing correctness of quantum algorithms and/or quantum descriptions across various levels of abstraction. In this work, we show that there are promising ways to check the correctness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Lukas Burgholzer , Richard Kueng , Robert Wille

With the accelerating development of quantum technologies and their growing computational potential, quantum systems are being adapted for simulations and other critical tasks across diverse domains, making the reliability of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Maryse Ernzer , Seung Yeob Shin , Fabrizio Pastore , Domenico Bianculli

Rapid advances in quantum computing technology lead to an increasing need for software simulators that enable both algorithm design and the validation of results obtained from quantum hardware. This includes calculations that aim at probing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-09 Amit Jamadagni , Andreas M. Läuchli , Cornelius Hempel

Quantum software testing introduces new challenges that differ fundamentally from those in classical software engineering. Aims: This study investigates how the quantum software industry defines testing roles and what skills are expected…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ronnie de Souza Santos , Maria Teresa Baldassarre , Cesar França

Test pattern generation is an electronic design automation tool that attempts to find an input (or test) sequence that, when applied to a digital circuit, enables one to distinguish between the correct circuit behavior and the faulty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 Jacob Biamonte , Marek Perkowski

Software testing is a critical component of the classical software development lifecycle, and this principle is expected to hold true for quantum software as it evolves toward large-scale production and adherence to industry standards.…

Quantum software engineering is an emerging discipline with distinct challenges, particularly in testing and debugging. As quantum computing transitions from theory to implementation, developers face issues not present in classical software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jake Zappin , Trevor Stalnaker , Oscar Chaparro , Denys Poshyvanyk

A quantum computer has now solved a specialized problem believed to be intractable for supercomputers, suggesting that quantum processors may soon outperform supercomputers on scientifically important problems. But flaws in each quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Timothy Proctor , Kenneth Rudinger , Kevin Young , Erik Nielsen , Robin Blume-Kohout

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 computers have the potential to provide an advantage over classical computers in a number of areas. Numerous metrics to benchmark the performance of quantum computers, ranging from their individual hardware components to entire…

Quantum computing is getting increasing interest from both academia and industry, and the quantum software landscape has been growing rapidly. The quantum software stack comprises quantum programs, implementing algorithms, and platforms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Matteo Paltenghi , Michael Pradel