A feasible and unitary quantum programming language

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Main Authors: Díaz-Caro, Alejandro, Hainry, Emmanuel, Péchoux, Romain, Silva, Mário
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Published: 2023
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author Díaz-Caro, Alejandro
Hainry, Emmanuel
Péchoux, Romain
Silva, Mário
author_facet Díaz-Caro, Alejandro
Hainry, Emmanuel
Péchoux, Romain
Silva, Mário
contents We introduce a novel quantum programming language featuring higher-order programs and quantum controlflow which ensures that all qubit transformations are unitary. Our language boasts a type system guaranteeingboth unitarity and polynomial-time normalization. Unitarity is achieved by using a special modality forsuperpositions while requiring orthogonality among superposed terms. Polynomial-time normalization isachieved using a linear-logic-based type discipline employing Barber and Plotkin duality along with a specificmodality to account for potential duplications. This type discipline also guarantees that derived values havepolynomial size. Our language seamlessly combines the two modalities: quantum circuit programs upholdunitarity, and all programs are evaluated in polynomial time, ensuring their feasibility.
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spellingShingle A feasible and unitary quantum programming language
Díaz-Caro, Alejandro
Hainry, Emmanuel
Péchoux, Romain
Silva, Mário
Logic in Computer Science
Programming Languages
We introduce a novel quantum programming language featuring higher-order programs and quantum controlflow which ensures that all qubit transformations are unitary. Our language boasts a type system guaranteeingboth unitarity and polynomial-time normalization. Unitarity is achieved by using a special modality forsuperpositions while requiring orthogonality among superposed terms. Polynomial-time normalization isachieved using a linear-logic-based type discipline employing Barber and Plotkin duality along with a specificmodality to account for potential duplications. This type discipline also guarantees that derived values havepolynomial size. Our language seamlessly combines the two modalities: quantum circuit programs upholdunitarity, and all programs are evaluated in polynomial time, ensuring their feasibility.
title A feasible and unitary quantum programming language
topic Logic in Computer Science
Programming Languages
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01054