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Full formal descriptions of algorithms making use of quantum principles must take into account both quantum and classical computing components and assemble them so that they communicate and cooperate. Moreover, to model concurrent and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marie Lalire , Philippe Jorrand

We present a basic high-level structures used for developing quantum programming languages. The presented structures are commonly used in many existing quantum programming languages and we use quantum pseudo-code based on QCL quantum…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-10-10 P. Gawron , J. Klamka , J. A. Miszczak , R. Winiarczyk

We present an imperative quantum programming language LanQ which was designed to support combination of quantum and classical programming and basic process operations - process creation and interprocess communication. The language can thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Hynek Mlnarik

We set down the principles behind a modeling language for quantum software. We present a minimal set of extensions to the well-known Unified Modeling Language (UML) that allows it to effectively model quantum software. These extensions are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Carlos A. Perez-Delgado , Hector G. Perez-Gonzalez

We advance the thesis that the simulation of quantum circuits is fundamentally about the efficient management of a large (potentially exponential) number of delimited continuations. The family of Scheme languages, with its efficient…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Vikraman Choudhury , Borislav Agapiev , Amr Sabry

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Luca Paolini , Mauro Piccolo , Margherita Zorzi

Quantum computing leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to perform computations far beyond the capabilities of classical systems, particularly in fields such as cryptography and optimization. However, current quantum programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Simone Faro , Francesco Pio Marino , Gabriele Messina

We develop a sound and complete equational theory for the functional quantum programming language QML. The soundness and completeness of the theory are with respect to the previously-developed denotational semantics of QML. The completeness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 Thorsten Altenkirch , Jonathan Grattage , Juliana K. Vizzotto , Amr Sabry

In this work we introduce Qumin, a novel quantum programming language with a focus on providing an easy to use, minimalist, high-level, and easily extensible platform for quantum programming. Qumin's design concentrates on encompassing the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Alexander Singh , Konstantinos Giannakis , Theodore Andronikos

We show a representation of Quantum Computers defines Quantum Turing Machines with associated Quantum Grammars. We then create examples of Quantum Grammars. Lastly we develop an algebraic approach to high level Quantum Languages using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Blaha

This work develops a formal framework for specifying, implementing, and analysing quantum communication protocols. We provide tools for developing simple proofs and analysing programs which involve communication, both via quantum channels…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-07-30 Anya Tafliovich , Eric C. R. Hehner

The main goal of this master's thesis is to introduce Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) in a way understandable by both the NLP engineer and the quantum computing practitioner. QNLP is a recent application of quantum computing that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Shervin Le Du , Senaida Hernández Santana , Giannicola Scarpa

Quantum computing, an innovative computing system carrying prominent processing rate, is meant to be the solutions to problems in many fields. Among these realms, the most intuitive application is to help chemical researchers correctly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Qingchun Wang , Huan-Yu Liu , Qing-Song Li , Jianyu Zhao , Qiankun Gong , Ye Li , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

Quantum computers leverage the unique advantages of quantum mechanics to achieve acceleration over classical computers for certain problems. Currently, various quantum simulators provide powerful tools for researchers, but simulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Shuangxiang Zhou , Ronghang Chen , Zheng An , Shi-Yao Hou

Finding a denotational semantics for higher order quantum computation is a long-standing problem in the semantics of quantum programming languages. Most past approaches to this problem fell short in one way or another, either limiting the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Michele Pagani , Peter Selinger , Benoît Valiron

Quantum machine learning (QML) seeks to exploit the intrinsic properties of quantum mechanical systems, including superposition, coherence, and quantum entanglement for classical data processing. However, due to the exponential growth of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Timothy Heightman , Edward Jiang , Ruth Mora-Soto , Maciej Lewenstein , Marcin Płodzień

We propose a quantum programming paradigm where all data are familiar classical data, and the only non-classical element is a random number generator that can return results with negative probability. Currently, the vast majority of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Jun Inoue

The main contribution of this paper is the introduction of a dynamic logic formalism for reasoning about information flow in composite quantum systems. This builds on our previous work on a complete quantum dynamic logic for single systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Alexandru Baltag , Sonja Smets

We introduce an abstract machine architecture for classical/quantum computations---including compilation---along with a quantum instruction language called Quil for explicitly writing these computations. With this formalism, we discuss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Robert S. Smith , Michael J. Curtis , William J. Zeng