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Scheme Pearl: Quantum Continuations

Programming Languages 2024-09-18 v1

Abstract

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 implementations of first-class continuations and with its imperative constructs, provides an elegant host for modeling and simulating quantum circuits.

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@article{arxiv.2409.11106,
  title  = {Scheme Pearl: Quantum Continuations},
  author = {Vikraman Choudhury and Borislav Agapiev and Amr Sabry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11106},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Appeared at Scheme Workshop 2022

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