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POPL 2019
Sun 13 - Sat 19 January 2019 Cascais, Portugal
Wed 16 Jan 2019 16:37 - 16:59 at Sala I - Quantum Programming Chair(s): Jens Palsberg

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 Palsberg University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
16:37
22m
Talk
Quantitative Robustness Analysis of Quantum Programs
Research Papers
Shih-Han Hung University of Maryland, Kesha Hietala University of Maryland, Shaopeng Zhu University of Maryland, Mingsheng Ying University of Technology Sydney, Michael Hicks University of Maryland, College Park, Xiaodi Wu University of Oregon, USA
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16:59
22m
Talk
Game Semantics for Quantum Programming
Research Papers
Pierre Clairambault CNRS & ENS Lyon, Marc De Visme ENS Lyon, Glynn Winskel
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17:21
22m
Talk
Quantum Relational Hoare Logic
Research Papers
Dominique Unruh University of Tartu
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