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We develop a system for solving logical deduction one-dimensional ordering problems by transforming natural language premises and candidate statements into first-order logic. Building on Heim and Kratzer's syntax-based compositional…

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This paper builds and extends on the authors' previous work related to the algorithmic tool, Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD), and one of its core applications, Real Quantifier Elimination (QE). These topics are at the heart of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-11-20 James H. Davenport , Matthew England , Scott McCallum , Ali K. Uncu

Quantum information processing (QIP) requires thorough assessment of decoherence. Atoms or ions prepared for QIP often become addressed by radiation within schemes of alternating microwave-optical double resonance. A well-defined amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-23 Chr. Balzer , Th. Hannemann , D. Reiß , W. Neuhauser , P. E. Toschek , Chr. Wunderlich

We outline refined versions of two major quantum algorithms for performing principal component analysis and solving linear equations. Our methods are exponentially faster than their classical counterparts and even previous quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Nhat A. Nghiem

Existing refinement calculi provide frameworks for the stepwise development of imperative programs from specifications. This paper presents a refinement calculus for deriving logic programs. The calculus contains a wide-spectrum logic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ian Hayes , Robert Colvin , David Hemer , Paul Strooper , Ray Nickson

We investigate complex self-testing, a generalization of standard self-testing that accounts for quantum strategies whose statistics is indistinguishable from their complex conjugate's. We show that many structural results from standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Ranyiliu Chen , Laura Mančinska , Jurij Volčič

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

In this paper a constructive formalization of quantifier elimination is presented, based on a classical formalization by Tobias Nipkow. The formalization is implemented and verified in the programming language/proof assistant Agda. It is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Jeremy Pope

We discuss issues of problem formulation for algorithms in real algebraic geometry, focussing on quantifier elimination by cylindrical algebraic decomposition. We recall how the variable ordering used can have a profound effect on both…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Matthew England

A recent experiment testing the necessity of complex numbers in the standard formulation of quantum theory is recreated using IBM quantum computers. To motivate the experiment, we present a basic construction for real-valued quantum theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Jarrett L. Lancaster , Nicholas M. Palladino

Reasoning with quantifier expressions in natural language combines logical and arithmetical features, transcending strict divides between qualitative and quantitative. Our topic is this cooperation of styles as it occurs in common…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Johan van Benthem , Thomas Icard

Number fields and their rings of integers, which generalize the rational numbers and the integers, are foundational objects in number theory. There are several computer algebra systems and databases concerned with the computational aspects…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Anne Baanen , Alain Chavarri Villarello , Sander R. Dahmen

A logical system derived from linear logic and called QMLL is introduced and shown able to capture all unitary quantum circuits. Conversely, any proof is shown to compute, through a concrete GoI interpretation, some quantum circuits. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-03 Ugo Dal Lago , Claudia Faggian

We present a logical calculus for reasoning about information flow in quantum programs. In particular we introduce a dynamic logic that is capable of dealing with quantum measurements, unitary evolutions and entanglements in compound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Alexandru Baltag , Sonja Smets

We introduce a new graphical framework for designing quantum error correction codes based on classical principles. A key feature of this graphical language, over previous approaches, is that it is closely related to that of factor graphs or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Joschka Roffe , Stefan Zohren , Dominic Horsman , Nicholas Chancellor

Cut-introduction is a technique for structuring and compressing formal proofs. In this paper we generalize our cut-introduction method for the introduction of quantified lemmas of the form $\forall x.A$ (for quantifier-free $A$) to a method…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Stefan Hetzl , Alexander Leitsch , Giselle Reis , Janos Tapolczai , Daniel Weller

The paper investigates from a proof-theoretic perspective various non-contractive logical systems circumventing logical and semantic paradoxes. Until recently, such systems only displayed additive quantifiers (Gri\v{s}in, Cantini). Systems…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Carlo Nicolai , Mario Piazza , Matteo Tesi

The paper is devoted to showing how to systematically design a programming language in 'reverse order', i.e. from denotations to syntax. This construction is developed in an algebraic framework consisting of three many-sorted algebras: of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Blikle Andrzej

Quantities are essential in documents to describe factual information. They are ubiquitous in application domains such as finance, business, medicine, and science in general. Compared to other information extraction approaches,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Satya Almasian , Vivian Kazakova , Philip Göldner , Michael Gertz

The paper studies a cluster of systems for fully disquotational truth based on the restriction of initial sequents. Unlike well-known alternative approaches, such systems display both a simple and intuitive model theory and remarkable…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Carlo Nicolai