Toward an architecture for quantum programming |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">S?BettelliEmail author T?Calarco L?Serafini |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Cedex Toulouse, France;(2) National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8423, MD 20899-8423 Gaithersburg, USA;(3) ECT*, European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas, Villa Tambosi, Strada delle Tabarelle 286, 38050 Villazzano, Italy;(4) Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (ITC-IRST), Via Sommarive 18 - Loc. Panté, 38050 Povo, Italy |
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Abstract: | It is becoming increasingly clear that, if a useful device for quantum computation will ever be built, it will be embodied by a classical computing machine with control over a truly quantum subsystem, this apparatus performing a mixture of classical and quantum computation. This paper investigates a possible approach to the problem of programming such machines: a template high level quantum language is presented which complements a generic general purpose classical language with a set of quantum primitives. The underlying scheme involves a run-time environment which calculates the byte-code for the quantum operations and pipes it to a quantum device controller or to a simulator. This language can compactly express existing quantum algorithms and reduce them to sequences of elementary operations; it also easily lends itself to automatic, hardware independent, circuit simplification. A publicly available preliminary implementation of the proposed ideas has been realised using the language.Received: 25 June 2002, Published online: 30 July 2003PACS:
03.67.Lx Quantum computation |
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