Quantum computation is a topic of significant recent interest, with practical advances coming from both research and industry. A major challenge in quantum programming is dealing with errors (quantum noise) during execution. Because quantum resources (e.g., qubits) are scarce, classical error correction techniques applied at the level of the architecture are currently cost-prohibitive. But while this reality means that quantum programs are almost certain to have errors, there as yet exists no principled means to reason about erroneous behavior. This paper attempts to fill this gap by developing a semantics for erroneous quantum while-programs, as well as a logic for reasoning about them. This logic permits proving a property we have identified, called $\epsilon$-robustness, which characterizes possible ``distance'' between an ideal program and an erroneous one. We have proved the logic sound, and showed its utility on several case studies, notably: (1) analyzing the robustness of noisy versions of the quantum Bernoulli factory (QBF) and quantum walk (QW); (2) demonstrating the (in)effectiveness of different error correction schemes on single-qubit errors; and (3) analyzing the robustness of a fault-tolerant version of QBF.
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16:37 - 17:43: Quantum ProgrammingResearch Papers at Sala I Chair(s): Jens PalsbergUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | |||
16:37 - 16:59 Talk | Quantitative Robustness Analysis of Quantum Programs Research Papers Shih-Han HungUniversity of Maryland, Kesha HietalaUniversity of Maryland, Shaopeng ZhuUniversity of Maryland, Mingsheng YingUniversity of Technology Sydney, Michael HicksUniversity of Maryland, College Park, Xiaodi WuUniversity of Oregon, USA Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
16:59 - 17:21 Talk | Game Semantics for Quantum Programming Research Papers Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
17:21 - 17:43 Talk | Quantum Relational Hoare Logic Research Papers Dominique UnruhUniversity of Tartu Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached File Attached |