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The classical lambda calculus may be regarded both as a programming language and as a formal algebraic system for reasoning about computation. It provides a computational model equivalent to the Turing machine, and continues to be of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andre van Tonder

Calculi with control operators have been studied to reason about control in programming languages and to interpret the computational content of classical proofs. To make these calculi into a real programming language, one should also…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-12 Robbert Krebbers

The extensive deployment of probabilistic algorithms has radically changed our perspective on several well-established computational notions. Correctness is probably the most basic one. While a typical probabilistic program cannot be said…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Francesco A. Genco , Giuseppe Primiero

For those of us who generally live in the world of syntax, semantic proof techniques such as reducibility, realizability or logical relations seem somewhat magical despite -- or perhaps due to -- their seemingly unreasonable effectiveness.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Pierre-Évariste Dagand , Lionel Rieg , Gabriel Scherer

We describe a realizability framework for classical first-order logic in which realizers live in (a model of) typed {\lambda}{\mu}-calculus. This allows a direct interpretation of classical proofs, avoiding the usual negative translation to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Valentin Blot

With a view towards models of quantum computation and/or the interpretation of linear logic, we define a functional language where all functions are linear operators by construction. A small step operational semantic (and hence an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Pablo Arrighi , Gilles Dowek

We present a new type system with support for proofs of programs in a call-by-value language with control operators. The proof mechanism relies on observational equivalence of (untyped) programs. It appears in two type constructors, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Rodolphe Lepigre

Many different systems with explicit substitutions have been proposed to implement a large class of higher-order languages. Motivations and challenges that guided the development of such calculi in functional frameworks are surveyed in the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Delia Kesner

The notion of simulatable security (reactive simulatability, universal composability) is a powerful tool for allowing the modular design of cryptographic protocols (composition of protocols) and showing the security of a given protocol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Dominique Unruh

We present the type system $\mathtt{d}$, an extended type system with lambda-typed lambda-expressions. It is related to type systems originating from the Automath project. $\mathtt{d}$ extends existing lambda-typed systems by an existential…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Matthias Weber

Gradually typed programming languages, which allow for soundly mixing static and dynamically typed programming styles, present a strong challenge for metatheorists. Even the simplest sound gradually typed languages feature at least…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Eric Giovannini , Tingting Ding , Max S. New

This paper introduces a formal metalanguage called the lambda-q calculus for the specification of quantum programming languages. This metalanguage is an extension of the lambda calculus, which provides a formal setting for the specification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Philip Maymin

Particle-style token machines are a way to interpret proofs and programs, when the latter are written following the principles of linear logic. In this paper, we show that token machines also make sense when the programs at hand are those…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Ugo Dal Lago , Margherita Zorzi

We present the system $\mathtt{d}$, an extended type system with lambda-typed lambda-expressions. It is related to type systems originating from the Automath project. $\mathtt{d}$ extends existing lambda-typed systems by an existential…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Matthias Weber

One of the most fundamental aspects of quantum circuit design is the concept of families of circuits parametrized by an instance size. As in classical programming, metaprogramming allows the programmer to write entire families of circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-08 Matthew Amy

We extend the {\lambda}-calculus with constructs suitable for relational and functional-logic programming: non-deterministic choice, fresh variable introduction, and unification of expressions. In order to be able to unify…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Pablo Barenbaum , Federico Lochbaum , Mariana Milicich

A reliable method for characterizing quantum operations that is suitable for improving and validating their accuracies is indispensable for realizing a practical quantum computer. Known methods are still not sufficient because they lack…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-25 Takanori Sugiyama , Shinpei Imori , Fuyuhiko Tanaka

Owing to the computational complexity of electronic structure algorithms running on classical digital computers, the range of molecular systems amenable to simulation remains tightly circumscribed even after many decades of work. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Alexis Ralli , Michael I. Williams , Peter V. Coveney

The lambda-PRK-calculus is a typed lambda-calculus that exploits the duality between the notions of proof and refutation to provide a computational interpretation for classical propositional logic. In this work, we extend lambda-PRK to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Pablo Barenbaum , Teodoro Freund

We consider a programming language that can manipulate both classical and quantum information. Our language is type-safe and designed for variational quantum programming, which is a hybrid classical-quantum computational paradigm. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xiaodong Jia , Andre Kornell , Bert Lindenhovius , Michael Mislove , Vladimir Zamdzhiev